Eclipsed Flamekin
Creature — Elemental Scout
When this creature enters, look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal an Elemental, Island, or Mountain card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- RU
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Lorwyn Eclipsed
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #9511
Eclipsed Flamekin puts a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control whenever you cast a spell of the chosen type — in the right deck, that's a board-wide pump stapled to every spell you cast. The cost is real: the payoff requires a critical mass of the same creature type and a commander like Ashling, the Limitless who generates that mass reliably.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ashling, the Limitless
Ashling, the Limitless creates a swarm of Elemental tokens, making Eclipsed Flamekin's triggered ability fire on virtually every spell cast — each Elemental spell becomes a board-wide buff that compounds alongside Ashling's own counter accumulation.
Omnath, Locus of the Roil
Omnath, Locus of the Roil's Elemental tribal shell gives Eclipsed Flamekin a steady stream of targets, and the counter generation synergizes with Omnath's damage triggers that care about the number of Elementals entering the battlefield.
Ashling, Rekindled
Ashling, Rekindled leans on Elemental synergies and repeated spell-casting loops, giving Eclipsed Flamekin consistent triggers and turning even modest spellslinging turns into meaningful board-wide power increases.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Eclipsed Flamekin is legal in every major Constructed format but has found no competitive traction outside Commander — the payoff is too slow and too reliant on a creature-dense board to threaten in faster formats like Modern or Pioneer. In Commander, it slots cleanly into Elemental tribal builds where the creature type clause does real work across a wide board. Outside of tribal synergy, it's a do-nothing four-drop in most shells, so the format ceiling is firmly Commander-only as a practical matter.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Eclipsed Flamekin is pure bulk — exactly what a narrow tribal enabler with zero competitive presence should cost. It holds that floor comfortably; there's no demand pressure to move it higher.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Ashling, the Limitless
- Omnath, Locus of the Roil
- Ashling, Rekindled
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.