Glimmerburst
Instant
Draw two cards. Create a 1/1 white Glimmer enchantment creature token.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Duskmourn: House of Horror
- Price
- $0.19
- EDHREC rank
- #9830
Glimmerburst draws two cards at instant speed — that's the headline, and the cost is just two mana plus an additional color requirement that Magnus the Red makes trivial. If your deck can reliably satisfy the multicolor condition, this is clean card advantage at a price that asks almost nothing.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Magnus the Red
Magnus the Red naturally runs multiple colors of instant and sorcery spells, so Glimmerburst's condition is met almost by default — slot it in and it's a two-mana draw-two that fuels the next spell in the chain.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Glimmerburst earns its slot in any spellslinger or storm-adjacent deck that already runs two or more colors of instants and sorceries — the multicolor condition isn't a hurdle so much as a deckbuilding checkpoint. Competitive formats are a different story: Pauper has access to strictly efficient draw spells, and Glimmerburst's conditional clause makes it a fringe inclusion at best there. In Standard and Pioneer it competes with a crowded field of two-mana cantrips, so it sees play only in shells built to satisfy the condition consistently. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — the bar for two-mana draw-twos is simply too high in those formats.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.19 bulk tier
At $0.19, Glimmerburst is firmly bulk — grab a copy without thinking twice if the deck calls for it. Bulk commons at this price point don't move much, so there's no timing consideration here; it's a throw-in.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Magnus the Red
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.