Ghostly Flame
Enchantment
Black and/or red permanents and spells are colorless sources of damage.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BR
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Ice Age
- Price
- $0.46
- EDHREC rank
- #30387
Ghostly Flame makes all damage dealt to creatures and players colorless, which blanks protection from black, protection from red, and any color-specific damage prevention your opponents are hiding behind. It costs two mana to cast and one to upkeep, so it earns its slot only when those protections are actually standing between you and a win.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Ghostly Flame is a narrow hate piece that earns consideration in Rakdos or Grixis damage-based decks that keep running into protection creatures or circle-of-protection effects — without that specific obstacle, it sits dead in hand. In Legacy and Vintage, the formats where it's legal, faster and more flexible interaction makes a three-mana investment across two turns a steep ask, and it sees effectively no competitive play there. Oathbreaker shares Commander's multiplayer texture, so the same rule applies: run Ghostly Flame if your meta has recurring protection problems, skip it otherwise.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.46 bulk tier
At $0.46, Ghostly Flame is firmly bulk — low financial risk to try, low cost to cut if your meta doesn't call for it. Demand is narrow enough that the price is unlikely to climb, so there's no urgency in acquiring copies.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.