Pyromancer's Goggles
Legendary Artifact
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. When that mana is spent to cast a red instant or sorcery spell, copy that spell and you may choose new targets for the copy.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop
- Price
- $6.20
- EDHREC rank
- #2803
Pyromancer's Goggles copies any red instant or sorcery you cast — effectively a Reverberate stapled to a mana rock that taps for red. Five mana to deploy is real, but in spell-heavy red decks the first copy trigger pays back the entire investment, and it only accelerates from there.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh
Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh is the most natural home: the deck is already built around red spells that trigger her loyalty, and Pyromancer's Goggles doubles every one of those triggers while also supplying the red mana she needs to keep firing.
Firesong and Sunspeaker
Firesong and Sunspeaker gains life and deals damage whenever you cast a red or white instant, so Pyromancer's Goggles copying those spells means every burn or lifegain effect fires twice — doubling both the life buffer and the damage output in one activation.
Imodane, the Pyrohammer
Imodane, the Pyrohammer converts single-target spells into player-wide damage, and Pyromancer's Goggles means each such spell resolves twice — effectively hitting every opponent four times from a single card.
Ashling, Flame Dancer
Ashling, Flame Dancer generates Magecraft triggers off every instant and sorcery, and Pyromancer's Goggles doubles those events, stacking additional counters and damage far faster than opponents can answer.
Neheb, the Eternal
Neheb, the Eternal converts combat damage into postcombat mana, and Pyromancer's Goggles lets you spend that mana on a spell that immediately generates a free copy — turning one big burn spell into two and often producing enough damage to refuel Neheb's pool all over again.
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 |
Commander is the unambiguous best home for Pyromancer's Goggles: the singleton rule makes spell-copy effects more valuable than in any 60-card format, and the five-mana investment is easy to absorb in a format built around ramp. In competitive 60-card formats — Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, Vintage — it simply costs too much; those formats want copy effects at one or two mana, and five-mana artifacts with no immediate board impact don't survive the pace. Oathbreaker is a workable middle ground, especially under a red instant or sorcery planeswalker, where the Goggles can copy the signature spell repeatedly. Standard legality is technically on the books, but the same speed argument applies; it rarely sees play outside of casual brews.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Strionic Resonator copies triggered abilities rather than spells, which misses most of what Pyromancer's Goggles does but hits Magecraft and similar triggers for under a dollar. If you want true spell-copy redundancy, Bonus Round costs two mana and copies every instant and sorcery cast that turn — it's narrower (sorcery speed, one turn only) but hits harder in a storm-style turn and costs a fraction of the price.
Price Context
Current price
$6.20 mid tier
At $6.20, Pyromancer's Goggles sits in mid-tier artifact territory — cheap enough to include without much deliberation in any red spell deck, expensive enough that you'll want to confirm the synergy before buying. It's a casual and Commander staple with steady demand, so this price is unlikely to crater.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.