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Fire Whip

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature you control
Enchanted creature has "{T}: This creature deals 1 damage to any target."
Sacrifice this Aura: It deals 1 damage to any target.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
common
Set
Weatherlight
Price
$0.21
EDHREC rank
#20142
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Fire Whip card art
Fire Whip gives a creature repeatable direct damage for one mana — the enchanted creature taps to deal 1 damage to any target, and that adds up fast in the right shell. It's not Thornbite Staff, but it enables the same style of tap-to-ping loops at a fraction of the price and complexity.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Fire Whip sees essentially zero competitive play in Legacy, Vintage, or Modern — one mana for a tap-to-ping effect is too slow and too fragile in those formats. Pauper is its most honest home outside Commander, where cheap enchantments with direct damage have occasionally enabled niche combo builds. In Commander, Fire Whip earns its slot in decks that can untap a creature repeatedly or generate infinite mana, turning a single tap into a kill condition; outside that context, it's too low-impact to run.

Key Combos

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Price Context

Current price

$0.21 bulk tier

At $0.21, Fire Whip is pure bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box rather than buy. The price isn't going anywhere; demand is narrow enough that it stays a throw-in, not a pickup.

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