Plasma Bolt
Sorcery
Plasma Bolt deals 2 damage to any target.
Void — Plasma Bolt deals 3 damage instead if a nonland permanent left the battlefield this turn or a spell was warped this turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Edge of Eternities
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #16812
Plasma Bolt deals 4 damage to a creature or planeswalker and replaces itself — that's a clean two-for-one at sorcery speed for three mana. The scry 1 keeps it from being dead cardboard in the late game, but four damage missing instant speed means it loses to any creature with haste that already attacked.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Plasma Bolt sits in the bottom tier of red removal — four damage at sorcery speed doesn't reliably kill commanders, and the format is full of faster, cheaper options. In Pauper it's marginally more interesting since the card pool is shallow and the scry 1 adds real value in a format where card quality matters, but even there Lightning Bolt and Galvanic Blast outclass it. Across Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer, Plasma Bolt simply doesn't compete — those formats demand instant-speed interaction at one or two mana. Standard is the one context where it could see play during a format rotation that starves red of better options, but that window is narrow.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Plasma Bolt is deep bulk — you're not paying for power, you're paying for cardboard. It won't appreciate; there's no demand driver that moves a sorcery-speed four-damage spell up the price curve.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.