Sarkhan's Dragonfire
Sorcery
Sarkhan's Dragonfire deals 3 damage to any target.
Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a red card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Core Set 2019
- Price
- $0.30
- EDHREC rank
- #24780
Sarkhan's Dragonfire deals 4 damage to a creature or planeswalker and replaces itself with a card — that's a clean two-for-one at instant speed for three mana. The cost is real: triple red makes it a hard splash, and it belongs only in decks that can reliably cast it.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Sarkhan's Dragonfire earns its slot in mono-red and heavy-red Dragon or Spellslinger decks where the color requirement is trivial and card draw is scarce enough that stapling a draw to removal feels premium. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer, three mana is a steep ask for a sorcery-speed effect — Lightning Bolt and Stomp exist — so it sees essentially no play there. Legacy and Vintage have even better options at lower mana costs, and the sorcery speed alone disqualifies it from serious consideration. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander read: fine in a red-heavy shell, irrelevant outside one.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.30 bulk tier
At $0.30, Sarkhan's Dragonfire is bulk — easy to pick up without a second thought. Bulk rares with narrow color requirements rarely climb unless a Commander precon or competitive spike creates demand, so treat it as a cheap role-player rather than a pickup with upside.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.