Fire Urchin
Creature — Elemental
Trample
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ravnica: Clue Edition
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #24438
Fire Urchin turns every instant and sorcery you cast into a temporary pump, making it a legitimate threat in spellslinger decks that are already doing what they want to do. The cost is that the bonus is fleeting — it resets at end of turn, so trading it into a blocker or pointing it at a planeswalker requires timing your spell chain carefully.
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 Urchin slots into Feather, the Redeemed or Veyran, Voice of Duality shells where spells are recycled or doubled — each trigger stacks, and a wide board suddenly becomes a lethal swing. In Pauper, it competes in Izzet Blitz strategies as a cheap threat that grows alongside Mutagenic Growth and Apostle's Blessing, though it lacks the raw stat ceiling of Kiln Fiend. Modern and Legacy have enough redundancy that Fire Urchin rarely makes the cut over strictly more powerful options, but budget Prowess builds will take it as a fifth-or-sixth copy of the effect. Pioneer and Oathbreaker are the formats where it's most situational — legal but rarely optimal.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Fire Urchin is deep bulk — grab a playset for pocket change and don't think twice about it. Demand is too narrow for this to appreciate meaningfully, so treat it as a pure gameplay pickup, not a financial one.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.