Flashfires
Sorcery
Destroy all Plains.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Unlimited Edition
- Price
- $2.76
- EDHREC rank
- #20412
Flashfires destroys all Plains — every white player at the table loses their basic land base in one shot. It's a four-mana sorcery that wins the mana war against white decks and does nothing against everyone else, which is exactly as narrow as it sounds.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Flashfires is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's only ever worth slotting in Commander, where multiple opponents mean a real chance of hitting at least one white mana base. In Legacy and Vintage, you're spending four mana at sorcery speed to kneecap a single opponent who almost certainly runs non-basic lands anyway — Wasteland is cheaper and faster. In Commander, it earns a narrow role in red decks that expect white-heavy pods, but even there, Blood Moon and Magus of the Moon apply pressure on a permanent rather than burning a card for a one-time effect.
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Price Context
Current price
$2.76 cheap tier
At $2.76, Flashfires sits in the cheap tier but punches above its utility — you're paying bulk-rare prices for a card with a bulk-rare use rate. The price reflects collector curiosity more than competitive demand, and it's unlikely to climb without a meaningful spike in white-hate strategies.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.