Flowstone Salamander
Creature — Salamander
: This creature deals 1 damage to target creature blocking it.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Tempest
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #30880
Flowstone Salamander is a slow, mana-hungry pump outlet on a fragile body — paying two red each activation for a temporary +1/-1 until end of turn is a poor rate by any modern standard. Niche use cases exist, but this is a bulk rare for a reason.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Flowstone Salamander is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but legality and playability are different things. In Commander, the repeated mana investment needed to make the Salamander threatening is rarely worth a deck slot when most red strategies have access to far more efficient pump or evasion. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters — those formats operate at a speed where a five-mana 2/4 with no immediate impact doesn't register. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander verdict: fine to own, almost never correct to run.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Flowstone Salamander is deep bulk — the kind of card that fills a trade binder slot without moving. Don't expect the price to move; there's no competitive demand pulling it anywhere.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.