Furnace Spirit
Creature — Spirit
Haste
: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Stronghold
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #30398
Furnace Spirit is a 2/1 first strike creature that gets +1/+0 until end of turn whenever you tap a Mountain — reasonable pressure for its era, but a 2/1 that requires active upkeep to stay relevant is not competing in 2024. Strictly a nostalgia pick; there are better aggressive two-drops at every price point.
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 Spirit is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but legal doesn't mean playable. In Pauper it's the closest to relevant, where first strike on a two-drop can matter in red aggro — except the Mountain-tap trigger requires mana you'd rather spend on spells, making it awkward in the format's tempo-focused red decks. In Commander, Furnace Spirit doesn't move the needle: a 2/1 body is irrelevant at a 100-card table, and the pump trigger doesn't scale. Legacy and Vintage red decks have no interest in a vanilla-adjacent two-drop when the format's threats are far more efficient.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, Furnace Spirit is deep bulk — the kind of card that ends up in a collection binder and never gets pulled out. That price reflects its demand accurately, and there's no pressure driving it upward.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.