Flamewave Invoker
Creature — Goblin Mutant
: This creature deals 5 damage to target player or planeswalker.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Duel Decks Anthology: Jace vs. Chandra
- Price
- $0.25
- EDHREC rank
- #15184
Flamewave Invoker gives you a repeatable eight-damage ping to any player for eight mana — no tap required, no cooldown, just mana. The cost is steep, but Agatha of the Vile Cauldron makes the activated ability trivially easy to copy onto creatures with power counters, turning a niche utility body into a multi-target kill condition.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Agatha of the Vile Cauldron
Agatha of the Vile Cauldron exiles Flamewave Invoker from the graveyard and spreads its eight-damage ability across every creature with a +1/+1 counter — suddenly you're pointing eight damage at each opponent in a single turn rather than one.
Redshift, Rocketeer Chief
Redshift, Rocketeer Chief cares about crewing and powering up artifacts and creatures, and Flamewave Invoker offers a mana sink that scales well when Redshift's engine generates the excess mana needed to fire it repeatedly.
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 |
Flamewave Invoker is a bulk rare in every format that will matter to you — it sees essentially zero play in Legacy, Vintage, or Pauper, where eight mana for eight damage can't compete with the raw efficiency of those formats. Commander is the only home where it earns a slot, and even there it's almost exclusively an Agatha of the Vile Cauldron piece rather than a broadly useful card. Outside of that specific shell, the Invoker is too slow and too conditional to justify a spot.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.25 bulk tier
At $0.25, Flamewave Invoker is deep bulk — it costs less than a sleeve. Demand is narrow enough that this price is a ceiling as much as a floor; outside of Agatha of the Vile Cauldron spikes, there's no pressure pushing it higher.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.