Molten Frame
Instant
Destroy target artifact creature.
Cycling 
(, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Conflux
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #27476
Molten Frame destroys any artifact creature for two mana at instant speed — clean, unconditional, and usable on your opponents' turns. It's a narrow answer to a specific card type, but when you need it, nothing about it disappoints.
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, Molten Frame fills the slot of cheap, instant-speed artifact creature removal, which matters most in metas heavy on Wurmcoil Engine, Blightsteel Colossus, or Myr Battlesphere — it answers all of them without condition. Pauper is where Molten Frame actually competes for a slot, since the removal pool is constrained and two-mana unconditional instant-speed answers are harder to come by. In Legacy and Vintage the card is legal but irrelevant — those formats have access to Swords to Plowshares, Dismember, and Force of Will, making a two-mana sorcery-adjacent effect with no additional upside dead weight in the 60-card context. Modern has better options at the same cost with broader targeting, so Molten Frame stays on the sideline there too.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Molten Frame is deep bulk — you're buying it out of a commons box, not tracking its price. There's no pressure on supply and no reason that changes.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.