Harvest Pyre
Instant
As an additional cost to cast this spell, exile X cards from your graveyard.
Harvest Pyre deals X damage to target creature.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Innistrad
- Price
- $0.13
- EDHREC rank
- #21458
Harvest Pyre deals damage equal to the number of cards exiled from your graveyard — meaning in a deck that fills its bin fast, it can one-shot a creature or planeswalker for two mana. The catch is permanent: every card you pitch to pay for it is gone, so the ceiling is real but the cost compounds.
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 |
In Commander, Harvest Pyre occupies a narrow role: it's a scalable removal spell in graveyard-centric decks that can deal enough damage to kill commanders and large threats, but it competes with unconditional removal in most 99s. In Pauper, where the card pool is limited and cheap interaction matters, Harvest Pyre is a legitimate sideboard option against creature-heavy matchups when a self-mill or flashback shell has stocked the yard. Legacy and Vintage have no interest in it — both formats have access to removal so efficient that paying two mana for conditional damage doesn't register. Modern and Pioneer have better options at every price point, and the exile cost is actively punishing in decks that want their graveyard intact.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.13 bulk tier
At $0.13, Harvest Pyre is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. There's no pressure driver to move the price in either direction, so treat it as a free inclusion and pick up copies whenever you see them.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.