Parch
Instant
Choose one —
• Parch deals 2 damage to any target.
• Parch deals 4 damage to target blue creature.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Urza's Legacy
- Price
- $0.15
- EDHREC rank
- #29640
Parch deals 2 damage to a creature or player and can be cycled for one mana if you'd rather replace it — a floor of card selection makes it almost never a dead draw. That said, 2 damage is below the removal threshold in Commander, so Parch belongs in dedicated cycling or spellslinger shells, not generic red decks.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Parch earns its slot only in decks that care about cycling triggers — Atemsis, All-Seeing or Brallin, Skyshark Rider shells where each cycle is an event, not just a cantrip. In Pauper, the format's lower toughness curve makes 2 damage more meaningful, and the cycling redundancy is real value at common. Legacy and Vintage have no use for it — the formats are too fast and the effect too small. Parch is a narrow role-player that's good precisely where it's supposed to be good and irrelevant everywhere else.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.15 bulk tier
At $0.15, Parch is pure bulk — you'll find it in common boxes or pick it up as a throw-in. That price is stable indefinitely; there's no reprint pressure worth tracking on a card this cheap and format-narrow.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.