Fire Ants
Creature — Insect
: This creature deals 1 damage to each other creature without flying.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Urza's Saga
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #15859
Fire Ants puts a repeatable deal-1-to-all-creatures on the table, and in the right shell that one damage becomes a full board wipe every turn. The cost is a 2/3 body for four mana that does nothing without support — Cacophodon or Wayta, Trainer Prodigy turn it into an engine; anywhere else it's just a slow pinger.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Wayta, Trainer Prodigy
Wayta, Trainer Prodigy's ability to untap Fire Ants after each activation lets you chain the triggered damage repeatedly in a single turn, converting what would be one ping into a full sweep of x-toughness creatures before opponents can respond.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is the only format where Fire Ants is worth serious consideration — four mana for a fragile body is too slow everywhere else, but the 100-card singleton environment makes repeatable mass pings uniquely valuable. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but never played; the creature format of those games demands far more immediate impact. Fire Ants lives and dies in Commander by the density of untap effects and toughness-matters synergies around it — without them, it's a 2/3 that trades with a 1/1 and goes home.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Fire AntsCacophodonRite of Passage
Infinite +1/+1 counters on certain creatures; Infinite damage to some creatures
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Current price
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Current pricing data for Fire Ants isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number. Given its narrow combo application and old printing, it typically sits in the bulk-to-low-singles range — worth picking up cheaply if you're building around Wayta, Trainer Prodigy, but not a card to chase at a premium.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.