Fuel the Flames
Instant
Fuel the Flames deals 2 damage to each creature.
Cycling 
(, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Aetherdrift
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #16073
Fuel the Flames deals 4 damage to any target for four mana — clean, unconditional, and instant-speed. It's a playable removal spell in formats where options are thin, but it's outclassed in any environment where better rate spells exist.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Fuel the Flames competes against a deep bench of efficient removal, and four mana for 4 damage rarely makes the cut when Chaos Warp, Chaos Defiler, and even Searing Blood exist at lower costs or higher upside. It's strictly a budget filler — you run it when you've exhausted better options. In constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer, the four-mana slot is brutally competitive, and Fuel the Flames offers no rate advantage over Lightning Bolt variants or conditional removal that costs less. Standard is its most realistic home, where card pools are shallow enough that unconditional reach at instant speed earns consideration in aggressive red builds.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Fuel the Flames is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not power. That price is stable by default: there's no demand pressure that would push it up, and it's not going anywhere down.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.