Igneous Elemental
Creature — Elemental
This spell costs 
less to cast if there is a land card in your graveyard.
When this creature enters, you may have it deal 2 damage to target creature.
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Jumpstart: Historic Horizons
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #29302
Igneous Elemental enters the battlefield and removes a small creature or artifact while leaving a body behind — two-for-one stapled onto a 4/3. The cost is a five-mana slot where the competition is steep, and you're not running Igneous Elemental unless your deck specifically rewards Elemental tribal or repeated enters-the-battlefield triggers.
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, Igneous Elemental fits narrowly into Elemental-tribal builds or value-flicker shells that can recur the enters-the-battlefield effect repeatedly — outside those homes, five mana for a 4/3 with a conditional removal ping doesn't clear the bar. In Pauper, where card advantage is tightly rationed at common, the guaranteed two-for-one at a manageable rate is more meaningful, though the format's low creature toughnesses mean the three-damage ceiling is rarely a constraint. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters for Igneous Elemental — the power ceiling in those formats makes a five-mana vanilla-adjacent creature invisible. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander: synergy-dependent, serviceable in the right shell, unimpressive outside it.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Igneous Elemental isn't currently available, which typically signals a bulk common or uncommon — expect to find it in a bulk bin or for under $0.25 on the secondary market. At that price point there's no risk in picking up a copy if you're building an Elemental deck, but don't hunt for it; it'll find you.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.