Fated Conflagration
Instant
Fated Conflagration deals 5 damage to target creature or planeswalker. If it's your turn, scry 2.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Born of the Gods
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #23597
Fated Conflagration deals 5 damage to a creature or planeswalker and, in a red devotion shell, lets you scry 2 on top of that — meaningful reach for a removal spell. The cost is real: four mana at sorcery speed is slow, and outside of dedicated devotion decks the scry rarely justifies the slot over cheaper alternatives.
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 |
In Commander, Fated Conflagration earns its slot almost exclusively in mono-red or heavy-red devotion builds where the scry 2 triggers and the double-red pip has structural value — everywhere else, four mana at sorcery speed for 5 damage is outclassed by faster options. In Legacy and Vintage, the competition is brutal: formats with Lightning Bolt and Pyroblast have no reason to touch a four-mana sorcery, so Fated Conflagration never sees play there. Modern and Pioneer are similarly hostile — Unholy Heat, Flame Slash, and similar cards do the job cheaper and at instant speed. Oathbreaker functions similarly to Commander for this card's purposes: it's a payoff for red-devotion-style signatures, not a generically good pick.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Fated Conflagration is deep bulk — grab a copy without thinking twice if you're building red devotion in Commander. Price stability is essentially a non-issue at this tier; it will stay bulk unless a devotion deck breaks into mainstream competitive play, which isn't on the horizon.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.