Garbage Fire
Instant
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Garbage Fire deals damage to target creature equal to the highest number you noted for cards named Garbage Fire.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Conspiracy: Take the Crown
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #30997
Garbage Fire deals damage equal to the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard — a number that scales hard in spell-heavy decks. The two-mana cost is fine for what it does late game, but it's a dead card early and competes with modal spells that do more work.
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 |
Garbage Fire is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it's a niche card in all of them. In Commander, it fits narrow spell-slinger builds where the graveyard count climbs into the double digits — think Kess, Dissident Mage or Mizzix of the Izmagnus shells that are already casting spells every turn. In Pauper it's theoretically playable in Izzet tempo, but two mana for a sorcery-speed burn spell is a tough sell when the format demands efficiency. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — the power ceiling isn't there relative to what those formats offer.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Garbage Fire is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and shipping, not the card. Bulk commons rarely move unless a deck archetype breaks out around them, and nothing on the horizon suggests that's happening here.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.