Kindled Fury
Instant
Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains first strike until end of turn. (It deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Hour of Devastation
- Price
- $0.04
- EDHREC rank
- #17811
Kindled Fury trades a single red mana for +1/+0, trample, and first strike until end of turn — enough to push a large attacker through a blocker or win a combat trade it otherwise loses. It's a fine combat trick at its floor, but a one-mana instant that doesn't change the board state permanently earns a slot only in decks where that single swing is the whole plan.
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, Kindled Fury is a niche inclusion — it earns its slot in Zada, Hedron Grinder or Feather, the Redeemed builds where targeting your own creature triggers an engine, but in most 99-card shells it's too low-impact to justify over removal or interaction. In competitive 1v1 formats like Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, one-mana combat tricks have a higher ceiling, but Kindled Fury competes against Mutagenic Growth, Giant Growth variants, and pump spells that also cantrip — the lack of card replacement holds it back. Pauper is its most natural home outside Commander engines, where red aggressive decks at common rarity have fewer options and every cheap instant has more relative value. Across the board, Kindled Fury is a role-player that needs the right shell to justify its inclusion, not a staple.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.04 bulk tier
At $0.04, Kindled Fury is deep bulk — you're not buying it for value, you're grabbing a playset out of a common bin without thinking twice. The price reflects the card's narrow role accurately, and there's no realistic scenario where it appreciates.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.