Festival of Embers
Enchantment
During your turn, you may cast instant and sorcery spells from your graveyard by paying 1 life in addition to their other costs.
If a card or token would be put into your graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.
: Sacrifice this enchantment.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Bloomburrow
- Price
- $0.37
- EDHREC rank
- #11136
Festival of Embers deals damage to each opponent equal to the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard — in a spell-heavy deck that number climbs fast, and the payoff scales with the work you've already done. The cost is real: it's a one-shot sorcery with no built-in recursion, so you're cashing out once and hoping the board state rewards it. In Alania, Divergent Storm, that trade is usually correct.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Alania, Divergent Storm
Alania, Divergent Storm incentivizes chaining instants and sorceries all game, so by the time Festival of Embers resolves, a graveyard count of 10-plus is routine — that's 10 damage to each opponent from a single card.
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 |
Festival of Embers is a Commander card first and largely only. In 60-card formats — Modern, Pioneer, Standard — graveyard counts rarely hit the threshold where this competes with dedicated burn or payoff spells, and the sorcery speed ceiling hurts it badly. Legacy has enough raw power that a one-shot damage spell with no other text doesn't make the cut. Commander is where the math works: four opponents mean the total damage output can close games outright when you've been filling your graveyard all game, and Izzet spell-slinger builds do exactly that.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.37 bulk tier
At $0.37, Festival of Embers sits squarely in bulk territory — easy to pick up and no reason to hesitate on the price. Bulk rares that see play in exactly one commander archetype rarely climb, so don't expect this to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.