Firebreathing
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
: Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ninth Edition
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #20029
Firebreathing turns any red creature into a mana sink that scales damage with however much mana you can float — useful when you need to push through the last points of commander damage. The catch is that it does nothing without mana open, making it dead weight in the early game and a liability against instant-speed removal.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Firebreathing is a fringe card — it fits narrow voltron or combat-damage strategies where pushing one creature past a blocker or hitting a damage threshold on the last turn matters, but most red decks find better ways to spend an Aura slot. In Pauper it has occasional homes in aggressive mono-red builds where cheap pump Auras supplement burn spells, though it competes with more efficient options at the same price point. Legacy and Vintage offer it no real home; the formats move too fast for a mana-hungry enchantment with no immediate effect. Firebreathing is a card that does exactly what it says with no upside beyond that, which keeps its ceiling low across every format it's legal in.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Firebreathing is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box rather than buy outright. There's no demand driver that would push the price up, so don't expect the copy in your binder to appreciate.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.