Dwarven Song
Instant
One or more target creatures become red until end of turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Legends
- Price
- $4.03
- EDHREC rank
- #28555
Dwarven Song makes all your creatures Mountain-typed until end of turn — a one-mana enabler with a narrow but explosive payoff in the right shell, most notably with Venerated Rotpriest, where triggering poison counters off a mass type-change can close games out of nowhere. Outside that specific context, it's too situational to run.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Dwarven Song is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker — the formats where it actually sees play are Commander and Oathbreaker, and only in dedicated Mountain-tribal or poison-counter shells. Legacy and Vintage have no realistic home for it; the effect is too low-impact for those formats' power levels. In Commander, it earns a slot in decks that can weaponize the Mountain subtype en masse, but it's a one-trick card that demands you build around it rather than slot it in generically.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Venerated RotpriestStorm HerdDwarven Song
Each opponent loses the game
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Current price
$4.03 cheap tier
At $4.03, Dwarven Song sits at the high end of what you'd expect for a niche one-mana instant with minimal competitive demand — that price reflects scarcity from an old print run, not broad playability. It holds value only as long as supply stays thin; don't pay a premium expecting it to climb.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.