Flowstone Blade
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
: Enchanted creature gets +1/-1 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Tempest Remastered
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #27951
Flowstone Blade turns any creature into a temporary pump at the cost of a mana per activation, but the effect only lasts until end of turn and requires continuous investment to matter. It's a treadmill enchantment that competes for slots with equipment that provide static bonuses — and loses.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Flowstone Blade is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but sees essentially no competitive play in any of them. In Commander the activated ability is too mana-intensive to be worth a card slot when static pump effects and actual evasion are available at the same price point. Pauper is the only format where commons scarcity could theoretically open a door, but even there the repeated mana tax for a one-turn buff doesn't pull weight.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Flowstone Blade is currently unavailable, but given its negligible competitive presence across all legal formats it almost certainly sits in bulk rare or bulk common territory. There's no functional demand driving it up, so if you need one for a niche project, a bulk bin is the right place to look.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.