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Reckless Fireweaver

Creature — Human Artificer

Whenever an artifact you control enters, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
common
Set
The List
Price
$0.83
EDHREC rank
#692
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Reckless Fireweaver card art
Reckless Fireweaver turns every artifact entering the battlefield into a point of damage to each opponent — no mana required, no targeting, no response window on individual triggers. At two mana, it's one of the cheapest drain engines in the game, and in decks helmed by Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator or Jaws, Relentless Predator that flood the board with treasure, it converts incidental resource generation into a race opponents can't ignore.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Jaws, Relentless Predator

Jaws, Relentless Predator

83.0% of decks · synergy 0.77

Jaws, Relentless Predator generates treasure on attack, and Reckless Fireweaver converts every one of those tokens into a point of damage before they're even spent — the drain accumulates fast enough that opponents take serious life loss just from Jaws doing its normal thing.

02
Kediss, Emberclaw FamiliarMalcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator

Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar // Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator

78.9% of decks · synergy 0.74

Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar // Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator is the definitive Reckless Fireweaver shell: Malcolm creates treasure for every opponent hit by a spell, Kediss spreads combat damage to the whole table, and Fireweaver pings everyone on each trigger so the treasure flood doubles as a clock.

03
Jolene, the Plunder Queen

Jolene, the Plunder Queen

73.4% of decks · synergy 0.69

Jolene, the Plunder Queen rewards opponents for making treasure and then punishes everyone equally — Reckless Fireweaver ensures that every treasure anyone makes at the table is also a passive drain, turning Jolene's political engine into a slow death sentence.

04
Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter

Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter

67.7% of decks · synergy 0.61

Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter's activated ability creates artifacts on a loop, and Reckless Fireweaver is one of the primary reasons that loop is dangerous — each token entering translates directly to damage, so Jan Jansen combos become lethal finishers rather than just value engines.

05
Prosper, Tome-Bound

Prosper, Tome-Bound

66.5% of decks · synergy 0.59

Prosper, Tome-Bound exiles cards and creates treasure when you cast them, giving Reckless Fireweaver a steady stream of triggers just from normal play — in a Prosper deck, Fireweaver is a free drain engine stapled to the commander's default game plan.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Reckless Fireweaver is a Commander card through and through — the artifact-storm and treasure-token strategies it rewards are native to that format, and the three-opponent table means each trigger is worth three times what it would be in a duel. In Pauper it's legal and occasionally surfaces in artifact-centric combo shells, though the format's speed and removal density make a 1/3 with no immediate impact a tougher sell. Modern and Pioneer have the card legal but essentially ignore it; the payoff requires a critical mass of artifact production that those formats achieve more efficiently with other win conditions. Legacy and Vintage make it legal on paper, but it's nowhere near the power level those formats demand.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.83 bulk tier

At $0.83, Reckless Fireweaver is firmly bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card that shows up in over 5,000 Jaws decks alone. That price is stable; it's not an obscure card waiting to spike, just a cheap staple that's been widely available long enough to stay affordable.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.