Molten Nursery
Enchantment
Devoid (This card has no color.)
Whenever you cast a colorless spell, this enchantment deals 1 damage to any target.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Battle for Zendikar
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #21895
Molten Nursery turns every noncreature spell into a free shock, and in a deck that casts dozens of them per turn it closes games without any other win condition. Three mana to set up, zero mana to trigger — the cost-to-output ratio is absurd in the right shell.
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 |
Molten Nursery is a Commander card in every practical sense — the formats where you're casting enough noncreature spells in a single game to make it lethal are artifact storm and spellslinger EDH shells, not Legacy or Modern sideboards. In those 60-card formats it's too slow and too narrow: you need the trigger count to run into the dozens before it approaches what a direct damage spell does for one mana, and competitive decks don't give you that runway. In Commander, especially under Jhoira of the Ghitu, Mizzix of the Izmagnus, or any artifact storm commander, Molten Nursery is a legitimate win condition that opponents can't counter by killing a creature — it just sits there pinging until the table is dead.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Molten Nursery is deep bulk — pick it up in a trade binder or toss it in a cart as a throwaway add-on. Bulk rares with narrow but real combo applications tend to stay at this price floor indefinitely, so there's no urgency in either direction.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.