Furnace Brood
Creature — Elemental
: Target creature can't be regenerated this turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Exodus
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #30996
Furnace Brood enters as a 4/4 with persist, meaning it comes back once with a -1/-1 counter when it dies — reasonable resilience on a body that trades with most midrange threats. Five mana for a 4/4 is below rate in Commander, and persist without a way to reset the counter is a one-time trick that doesn't justify the slot in most builds.
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 |
Furnace Brood is a fringe card in Commander, where five mana for a 4/4 with persist is simply outclassed by recursive threats that generate more value or come in at lower cost. The persist trigger has real upside in aristocrats or -1/-1 counter synergy decks — commanders like Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons or Olivia, Mobilized for War can exploit the counter placement — but even there, better persist creatures exist. In Pauper, Furnace Brood is legal but sees no meaningful play; the format's aggro and control shells have no interest in a five-mana vanilla-adjacent creature. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters for obvious power-level reasons.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Furnace Brood is deep bulk — you'll find copies in a common box before you'd bother ordering one. There's no pressure on that price to move upward; it has no competitive applications and only niche Commander relevance.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.