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Fiery Mantle

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature
{R}: Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
When this Aura is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return it to its owner's hand.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
common
Set
Urza's Saga
Price
$0.16
EDHREC rank
#19688
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Fiery Mantle card art
Fiery Mantle gives a creature +1/+0 and first strike, and you can pay three mana to move it to another creature at instant speed — the payoff is narrow but real in decks that care about auras entering the battlefield repeatedly. Outside of dedicated recursion engines like Quintorius, Field Historian, it's a bulk card doing bulk work.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Fiery Mantle is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it earns a slot almost exclusively in Commander, where repeated ETB triggers from bouncing or recurring an aura can generate real value. In Pauper it's technically playable as a cheap combat trick with upside, but the format has better aura options and the three-mana activation is too slow to matter competitively. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in it. Commander is the only format where the recursive angle justifies running Fiery Mantle at all.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.16 bulk tier

At $0.16, Fiery Mantle is deep bulk — you're not buying this for value, you're buying it because a specific deck wants it. It will stay at this price tier indefinitely; there's no pressure on supply and demand isn't moving.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.