Liberating Combustion
Sorcery
Liberating Combustion deals 6 damage to target creature. You may search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Chandra, Pyrogenius, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Kaladesh
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #21239
Liberating Combustion deals 4 damage to a creature and replaces itself by grabbing any red instant or sorcery from your library — the card selection is the payoff, not the burn. Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh decks run it precisely because tutoring up the right spell at the right moment is worth more than raw damage output.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh
Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh flips into a planeswalker by dealing 3 damage in a turn, and Liberating Combustion both advances that damage count and tutors the next red spell needed to close the loop — it's a two-for-one that feeds the engine rather than just sitting beside it.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Liberating Combustion is a Commander card through and through — the tutor clause scales with the size of your spell library, and 100-card singleton gives it the widest possible range of targets to find. In Modern or Pioneer, a four-mana sorcery that deals 4 to a creature is simply too slow when cheaper, unconditional removal exists, and the tutor rarely makes up the tempo loss. Legacy and Vintage have access to so many broken red instants that the tutor is theoretically powerful, but neither format wants to spend four mana at sorcery speed on a creature kill. Stick to Commander, where the search effect justifies the cost.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Liberating Combustion sits firmly in bulk territory — it's a throw-in trade or a dollar-bin pickup with no financial risk. Bulk rare prices this low rarely move unless a deck archetype breaks out in a competitive format, and this card's home is Commander, so expect it to stay cheap.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.