Frostling
Creature — Spirit
Sacrifice this creature: It deals 1 damage to target creature.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Salvat 2005
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #26931
Frostling trades itself for any target creature at instant speed — one mana, one card, one kill, no questions asked. The cost is real: you're down a card and a body, so it earns its slot only in decks that profit from both the sacrifice and the death trigger, like Kykar, Wind's Fury, which turns the Spirit token into a red mana and then recycles it.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Frostling is a fringe inclusion — most red decks want repeatable removal or bodies that do more than trade one-for-one, but sacrifice-matters shells that generate tokens and want cheap fodder will find it serviceable. In Pauper it's outclassed by essentially every other one-mana red removal spell at common, so it sees no real play there. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; the bar for one-mana creatures in those formats is far beyond what Frostling offers. The honest summary: Frostling is a Commander-only card, and even there it's a narrow fit.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Kykar, Wind's FuryEnduring RenewalFrostling
Infinite death triggers; Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite sacrifice triggers; Infinite storm count
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Current price
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Pricing data isn't available for Frostling at the moment, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a current quote. Given that it's a low-demand common with niche applications, it almost certainly sits at bulk pricing — likely a dime or less.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.