Crowd of Cinders
Creature — Elemental
Fear (This creature can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or black creatures.)
Crowd of Cinders's power and toughness are each equal to the number of black permanents you control.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Shadowmoor
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #27050
Crowd of Cinders swings as a massive trampler for a single black mana — its power and toughness equal the number of black permanents you control, which in a mono-black or heavily black deck regularly lands in the 10+ range by mid-game. Four mana total for a conditional-but-enormous threat with built-in evasion is a real rate, and the ceiling is high enough to close games fast.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Crowd of Cinders belongs in mono-black or near-mono-black devotion builds where it routinely attacks for 15+ damage with trample — it's a legitimate finisher, not a fringe inclusion. Legacy and Vintage are legal homes on paper, but those formats have no interest in a four-mana creature that needs a specific board state to threaten, so it sees zero competitive play there. Modern is similarly legal and similarly unplayed; the format's threats are faster and less conditional. Crowd of Cinders is a Commander card through and through — the 100-card singleton format is where black-permanent density is high enough and game pace slow enough for it to consistently pay off.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Crowd of Cinders is deep bulk — you're picking it out of a dollar box, not tracking it down. The price is stable at this floor and unlikely to move; it's not a card with crossover appeal in expensive formats, so there's no pressure to buy in now or later.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.