Efreet Flamepainter
Creature — Efreet Shaman
Double strike
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Strixhaven: School of Mages
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #14804
Efreet Flamepainter cheats a free instant or sorcery cast every time it connects — no mana cost, straight from your graveyard — which means one hit can close a game or generate a loop. The cost is double strike on a fragile 1/3 body that has to actually deal combat damage, and Oriq Loremage tutoring a spell into your graveyard is the cleanest setup, not a workaround.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Efreet Flamepainter belongs. The singleton graveyard is already full of targets, opponents have no hand information to play around, and one unblocked swing can replay a Chaos Warp, a Timetwister effect, or a lethal burn spell for free. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Legacy, Efreet Flamepainter is too slow and too fragile — a 1/3 double striker for four mana that requires combat damage to connect is nowhere near the rate those formats demand. Pioneer represents the same problem at a slightly lower power ceiling, but still nowhere near playable. Oathbreaker gives it a niche home when the signature spell is something broken enough to recur.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card



Oriq LoremageEfreet FlamepainterBeacon of Tomorrows
Infinite turns; Lock
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Efreet FlamepainterIsochron ScepterPull from EternityRise of the Eldrazi
Infinite turns; Lock
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Efreet FlamepainterIsochron ScepterPull from EternityTime Warp
Infinite turns; Lock
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Efreet FlamepainterIsochron ScepterPull from EternityWalk the Aeons
Infinite turns; Lock
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Efreet FlamepainterIsochron ScepterPull from EternityTime Stretch
Infinite turns; Lock
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Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Efreet Flamepainter is bulk, and the price reflects its narrow competitive demand rather than its ceiling in the right Commander shell. It's unlikely to climb without a reprint-driven spike or a new graveyard-setup enabler pushing it into wider rotation, but at a quarter it's a zero-risk pickup for any spellslinger build.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.