Firefright Mage
Creature — Goblin Spellshaper
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, Discard a card: Target creature can't be blocked this turn except by artifact creatures and/or red creatures.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Planar Chaos
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #23464
Firefright Mage gives a target creature -1/-0 and makes it unblockable until end of turn for one red mana — relevant disruption that doubles as an evasion enabler. The effect is narrow enough that it earns a slot only in decks that specifically want to push damage through on a single creature.
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, Firefright Mage fits narrow aggressive shells — primarily red-based decks that need a cheap way to push a key attacker past blockers. Legacy, Vintage, and Modern have far more efficient one-mana interaction and evasion tools, so Firefright Mage sees essentially no play there. Pauper is its most realistic competitive home, where common-rarity evasion enablers matter and the body-plus-effect on one card has marginal value in aggressive red lists.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Firefright Mage is deep bulk — it costs nothing to pick up and nothing to lose. Don't expect that floor to move; cards this narrow rarely see the kind of demand that lifts bulk prices.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.