Omen of Fire
Instant
Return all Islands to their owners' hands. Each player sacrifices a Plains or a white permanent of their choice for each white permanent they control.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Alliances
- Price
- $1.18
- EDHREC rank
- #24720
Omen of Fire returns all lands to their owners' hands — a reset button that can dismantle mana bases and cripple late-game boards in a single cast. It's a niche effect, high-ceiling when timed correctly, but too situational to run outside decks that specifically exploit the symmetry.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Omen of Fire is a Commander card through and through — the format's longer games and multi-player dynamics mean at least one opponent is hurt worse than you by a mass land bounce, and that asymmetry is where the card earns its slot. In Legacy and Vintage it's legal but essentially unplayed; decks in those formats win faster than a five-mana sorcery can matter, and disrupting mana bases belongs to Strip Mine and Wasteland. Oathbreaker shares enough of Commander's DNA that the same logic applies at a smaller scale.
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Price Context
Current price
$1.18 cheap tier
At $1.18, Omen of Fire sits firmly in the bulk-rare tier — cheap enough to pick up on a whim without any real budget consideration. The price reflects its narrow demand; it won't spike without a breakout commander that makes mass land bounce a core strategy.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.