Ghostfire
Instant
Ghostfire is colorless.
Ghostfire deals 3 damage to any target.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Duel Decks: Merfolk vs. Goblins
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #25774
Ghostfire deals 3 damage to any target for three mana — the same rate as Lightning Bolt's worse cousin — except it's colorless, meaning it slides past protection from red and color-based hexproof. That niche is real but narrow; Ghostfire earns a slot only when your deck specifically needs to punch through those effects.
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 |
Ghostfire sees essentially no competitive play in Legacy, Modern, or Vintage — three mana for three damage is well below rate in formats where removal needs to be efficient and cheap. In Pauper, better common burn exists at lower cost. Commander is where Ghostfire occasionally justifies itself: decks running Uril, the Miststalker or other protection-heavy targets get blanked by color-based hexproof, and Ghostfire's colorless damage ignores that entirely. Even there, the demand is situational enough that most red decks will never need it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Ghostfire is deep bulk — the kind of card that costs more to ship than to buy. It holds no financial value and never will; pick it up from a dollar bin if the niche applies to your deck, and don't think twice about it.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.