Igneous Pouncer
Creature — Elemental
Haste
Swampcycling 
, mountaincycling (, Discard this card: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)
- CMC
- 6
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BR
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Alara Reborn
- Price
- $0.14
- EDHREC rank
- #21012
Igneous Pouncer is a seven-mana 4/4 with landcycling twice over — you're playing it to find basic Mountains or Forests at instant speed for two mana, not to cast it. The body is irrelevant; the cycling utility is the entire point.
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 |
Igneous Pouncer is a pauper-legal common, and that's the format where it sees the most theoretical use — landcycling for basic Mountains or Forests gives red-green decks a cheap way to fix mana or thin the deck at instant speed. In Commander, it's a fringe inclusion in landfall decks or elemental-tribal shells where the creature type occasionally matters, but seven mana to cast is dead weight when the cycling cost is what you're actually paying. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; Igneous Pouncer offers nothing those formats can't get faster and better. Oathbreaker follows the same logic as Commander — run it if you need the cycling, not the body.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.14 bulk tier
At $0.14, Igneous Pouncer is deep bulk — you're grabbing it out of a commons box, not buying it intentionally. There's no meaningful price floor to discuss; it holds its value only as a draft chaff filler.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.