Fireforger's Puzzleknot
Artifact
When this artifact enters, it deals 1 damage to any target.
, Sacrifice this artifact: It deals 1 damage to any target.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Kaladesh
- Price
- $0.08
- EDHREC rank
- #28040
Fireforger's Puzzleknot deals 2 damage on entry and another 2 when you sacrifice it, but paying 2 mana twice for a total of 4 damage across two actions is a terrible rate in any competitive context. Guttersnipe and Pinger effects have better options at every price point.
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 |
Fireforger's Puzzleknot is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but that breadth of legality does not translate to relevance in any of them. In Pauper, where commons compete hard on efficiency, two mana for two damage is simply too slow against the format's tempo demands. In Commander, the only realistic home is a spellslinger or artifact-sacrifice deck that counts triggers — Jhoira of the Ghitu or Breya, Etherium Shaper shells — but even there Fireforger's Puzzleknot is a bottom-of-the-barrel inclusion that gets cut as the list improves.
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Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.08 bulk tier
At $0.08, Fireforger's Puzzleknot is deep bulk — you'll find copies in any common box at your local store for free. There is no demand pressure that would move this price, so treat it as a freely available placeholder rather than a deliberate purchase.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.