Manaforge Cinder
Creature — Elemental Shaman
: Add 
or 
. Activate no more than three times each turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- BR
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Shadowmoor
- Price
- $0.24
- EDHREC rank
- #22752
Manaforge Cinder turns any Black or Red source into any color of mana you need, once per turn for one life — a repeatable color-fixer on a 1/1 body that costs two mana to deploy. It's a niche role-player in Rakdos-or-broader multicolor shells that are starved for off-color fixing, not a staple.
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 |
In Commander, Manaforge Cinder fills a narrow slot: Rakdos or four-color decks that need off-color mana and can't afford better fixers like Chromatic Lantern. In Pauper, where fixing is more constrained by the card pool, it's a legitimately competitive option in multicolor Tortured Existence or Reanimator shells that live in Black and Red. Legacy and Vintage have access to Mox Diamond, Ancient Tomb, and fetchland-dual packages that make Manaforge Cinder irrelevant at any competitive level. Modern's fixing landscape — Triomes, Fabled Passage, Hallowed Fountain — similarly leaves it without a home.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.24 bulk tier
At $0.24, Manaforge Cinder is bulk, and it earns that price tag — it's not a card with suppressed demand, it's just genuinely narrow. Pick it up freely for the right Pauper or budget Commander build; there's no reason to expect the price to matter in either direction.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.