Living Inferno
Creature — Elemental
: This creature deals damage equal to its power divided as you choose among any number of target creatures. Each of those creatures deals damage equal to its power to this creature.
- CMC
- 8
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Guildpact
- Price
- $0.27
- EDHREC rank
- #25563
Living Inferno enters the battlefield and immediately deals 7 damage split across any number of target creatures — that's a board wipe stapled to a 7/4 body for eight mana. The cost is real, but the floor on this card is "kills three blockers and survives," which is a fine rate in the late game.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Living Inferno is a Commander card through and through — eight mana is a non-starter in Legacy, Modern, or Vintage, where the game is often decided before this resolves. In those formats it's technically legal but functionally unplayable outside of niche reanimator shells where the cost is irrelevant. Commander is where Living Inferno earns its slot: the longer game, Dragon tribal synergies, and cheat-into-play commanders make the eight-mana ceiling manageable, and a 7-damage ETB trigger that kills multiple creatures is exactly the kind of sorcery-speed catch-up mechanism that matters in multiplayer.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.27 bulk tier
At $0.27, Living Inferno is deep bulk — you can pick up a playset for under a dollar without thinking about it. Bulk rare prices rarely recover unless a card finds a competitive home, and Living Inferno's ceiling is Commander-only, so don't expect movement.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.