Flowstone Strike
Instant
Target creature gets +1/-1 and gains haste until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Nemesis
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #30738
Flowstone Strike gives a creature +1/+1 and the ability to pay one red mana for a temporary +1/-1 pump — useful for pushing through blockers or hitting odd toughness thresholds, but at two mana for a sorcery-speed aura, the rate is too slow for most competitive contexts. It's a niche tool for dedicated pump-spell or Aura strategies, not a general inclusion.
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 Strike is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but sees meaningful play in essentially none of them at scale. In Commander, the effect is too small — two mana at sorcery speed for a conditional +1/+1 and a repeatable but self-limiting pump doesn't move the needle in a 40-life format. Pauper is the most plausible home, where common-only restrictions make marginal Auras more relevant, but even there it faces stiff competition from more efficient pump spells. Legacy and Vintage have the card pool to simply do better.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Flowstone Strike is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a commons box, not a store listing. That price reflects exactly what it is: narrow, replaceable, and unlikely to appreciate unless a very specific Aura-matters Commander card dramatically shifts demand.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.