Emberwilde Augur
Creature — Goblin Shaman
Sacrifice this creature: It deals 3 damage to target player or planeswalker. Activate only during your upkeep.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Future Sight
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #26731
Emberwilde Augur trades your life total for hand size — each spell you cast triggers a loot, keeping cards flowing at the cost of 1 life per activation. It's a repeatable draw engine for aggressive red decks that expect to win before the life loss matters.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Emberwilde Augur earns a slot in spell-slinging red decks that want cheap, repeatable looting — Prosper, Tome-Bound and Izzet storm builds are natural homes. The life loss is nearly irrelevant when you're goldfishing a fast combo kill, but it stings in attrition games where 40 life erodes faster than expected. In Pauper, common-legal looting is genuinely contested territory, and Augur competes with stronger options at the same slot. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — the effect is too slow and too fragile for those formats.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Emberwilde Augur is pure bulk — pick it up as a throw-in and don't think twice about the price. It won't appreciate, but it costs nothing to slot into a red deck that wants the effect.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.