Force of Rage
Instant
If it's not your turn, you may exile a red card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Create two 3/1 red Elemental creature tokens with trample and haste. Sacrifice those tokens at the beginning of your next upkeep.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Modern Horizons
- Price
- $0.30
- EDHREC rank
- #18045
Force of Rage puts two 3/1 haste tokens on the board for free — the cost is that they die at end of turn unless you can copy it with something like Dual Casting before they vanish. That trade-off makes it a precision tool for sacrifice and token-doubling shells rather than a generalist spell.
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 |
Commander is where Force of Rage earns its slot, specifically in Goblin, sacrifice, and token-copy decks that can exploit the tokens before the cleanup step. In Legacy and Vintage, the free-spell angle is more interesting — pitch it to fuel prowess or storm counts — but the self-destruct clause keeps it off most serious lists. Modern has enough free-spell competition that Force of Rage rarely makes the cut outside of niche token-abuse builds. It's legal in Oathbreaker but sees minimal play there for the same reasons it underperforms outside Commander.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Dual CastingThornbite StaffForce of RageThermopod
Infinite creature tokens with haste; Infinite damage; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite red mana; Infinite sacrifice triggers
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Dual CastingThornbite StaffForce of RagePhyrexian Altar
Infinite colored mana; Infinite creature tokens with haste; Infinite damage; Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite sacrifice triggers
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Current price
$0.30 bulk tier
At $0.30, Force of Rage is firmly bulk — low barrier to test in any token or sacrifice list. Bulk rares with narrow use cases like this rarely appreciate unless a new commander pushes the archetype, so treat it as a cheap experiment rather than a pickup to hold.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.