Kindle the Inner Flame

Kindred Sorcery — Elemental

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control, except it has haste and "At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this token."
Flashback—{1}{R}, Behold three Elementals. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it. To behold an Elemental, choose an Elemental you control or reveal an Elemental card from your hand.)

CMC
4
Mana cost
{3}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
uncommon
Set
Lorwyn Eclipsed
Price
$0.21
EDHREC rank
#14720
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Kindle the Inner Flame card art
Kindle the Inner Flame gives any creature haste and a free copy of itself until end of turn — the copy clause is what makes it dangerous, letting Dualcaster Mage flash in to intercept it and generate infinite copies. The two-mana cost is low enough that this isn't a situational inclusion; in any red deck running Etali, Primal Conqueror or similar attack-trigger commanders, it's doing real work the turn you cast it.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Etali, Primal Conqueror

28.6% of decks · synergy 0.27

Etali, Primal Conqueror attacks and steals spells — Kindle the Inner Flame gets it swinging the turn it enters, which is the entire point of the card in this shell. Nearly 29% of Etali decks run it, and that number reflects how consistently it closes the loop between a six-mana cast and an immediate trigger.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Kindle the Inner Flame is legal across every major constructed format but sees essentially zero competitive play outside Commander — the effect is too narrow for formats where creature-copy loops need to close a game faster and more reliably. In Commander, it earns its slot almost exclusively through the Dualcaster Mage interaction, where any instant that makes a copy becomes a two-card infinite loop when Dualcaster flashes in targeting it. Outside that combo context, Kindle the Inner Flame is a serviceable haste enabler in red aggro or attack-trigger decks, and the token copy it generates until end of turn occasionally matters for combat math. Oathbreaker is the only non-Commander format where the combo angle could realistically show up, but the singleton constraint keeps it fringe there too.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

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Kairi, the Swirling SkyHigh TideTurnaboutKindle the Inner Flame

Kairi, the Swirling SkyHigh TideTurnaboutKindle the Inner Flame

Infinite ETB; Infinite LTB; Infinite death triggers; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite mana permanents you control can produce; Infinite self-mill; Infinite storm count

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Price Context

Current price

$0.21 bulk tier

At $0.21, Kindle the Inner Flame sits firmly in bulk territory — you're picking this up as a throw-in, not a purchase. Bulk combo pieces like this tend to stay flat unless a prominent deck or new commander pushes the interaction into the spotlight, so don't expect movement.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.