Opera Love Song
Instant
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• Exile the top two cards of your library. You may play those cards until your next end step.
• One or two target creatures each get +2/+0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Final Fantasy
- Price
- $0.24
- EDHREC rank
- #6226
Opera Love Song puts two mana on the table the turn it resolves — that's the headline. At two mana itself, it pays back immediately when you're casting a spell this turn, and Ral, Monsoon Mage turns every instant and sorcery into a trigger, making the refund engine here tighter than a typical ritual.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Ral, Monsoon Mage
Ral, Monsoon Mage cares about casting instants and sorceries repeatedly, and Opera Love Song both counts as one and funds the next — it's a two-for-one on storm count and mana in the same card.
Gwen Stacy
Gwen Stacy rewards spell-slinging in Izzet colors, and Opera Love Song slides in as cheap cantrip fuel that keeps the chain of casts moving without eating tempo.
Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival
Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival wants low-cost spells to trigger her artifact and token synergies, and Opera Love Song's two-mana cost makes it an easy include that accelerates her gameplan a full turn.
Fire Lord Zuko
Fire Lord Zuko builds toward a critical mass of red spells, and Opera Love Song's ritual effect lets him threaten his big turns a rotation early while padding the spell count.
Laelia, the Blade Reforged
Laelia, the Blade Reforged grows on every spell cast from exile, and Opera Love Song contributes to that count while floating mana toward whatever she exiles next.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Opera Love Song earns its slot in any Izzet or mono-red spell-slinging deck that wants to chain instants and sorceries — the two-mana refund is real acceleration, not just a cantrip. In Modern and Pioneer, it competes with a crowded field of ritual and ramp effects, so it only makes rosters in dedicated storm or spellcount builds where the spell type matters as much as the mana. Legacy has faster options, but Opera Love Song isn't embarrassing there if the deck wants volume. Standard gives it the most open competition, where two-mana acceleration for an instant or sorcery shell is genuinely useful if the support cards exist. It's not legal in Pauper, which is the one format where it would have had broad reach.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.24 bulk tier
At $0.24, Opera Love Song is firmly bulk — pick it up without a second thought if the deck calls for it. Bulk ramp and ritual pieces at this price point rarely spike unless a commander or combo pushes explosive demand, so expect it to stay in this range.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Ral, Monsoon Mage
- Gwen Stacy
- Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival
- Fire Lord Zuko
- Laelia, the Blade Reforged
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.