Fire Shrine Keeper
Creature — Elemental
Menace
, 
, Sacrifice this creature: It deals 3 damage to each of up to two target creatures.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ixalan
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #24214
Fire Shrine Keeper is a 1/1 for one red mana with an activated ability that exiles itself to deal 6 damage to a player — but that activation costs seven mana and requires eight or more cards in your graveyard. The payoff is real but the setup cost is steep enough that this is a fringe card even in dedicated graveyard-recursion strategies.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Fire Shrine Keeper is a bulk roleplayer at best — decks that fill graveyards quickly (Chainer, Grenzo, Purphoros token spam) can meet the eight-card threshold without trying, but spending seven mana to deal 6 damage to one player is rarely the most efficient line available. In Pauper, where direct damage and graveyard synergies matter at common, it's theoretically legal but too slow and conditional to see play in any established archetype. Legacy, Vintage, Modern, and Pioneer all offer so many superior burn and graveyard payoffs that Fire Shrine Keeper doesn't register competitively in any of them. The card's home, if it has one, is casual Commander graveyard builds looking for redundant reach.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Fire Shrine Keeper is deep bulk — you'll find it in bulk bins or as throw-in filler in any trade. There's no meaningful price floor to erode further, and no competitive demand that would push it higher.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.