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Seething Song

Instant

Add {R}{R}{R}{R}{R}.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{R}
Color identity
R
Rarity
common
Set
World Championship Decks 2004
Price
$2.86
EDHREC rank
#339
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Seething Song card art
Seething Song turns three mana into five — a net of two red mana for a single spell slot, which is the kind of efficiency that ends games early in storm and big-mana red shells. Storm-Kiln Artist and Ral, Monsoon Mage both treat it as an accelerant and a spell-count trigger in the same package, which is why it shows up in over 80% of Ral lists.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

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

Seething Song is banned in Modern, where it enabled turn-two combo kills with storm payoffs before the format could interact. Legacy and Vintage tolerate it because both formats have the interaction density to punish a telegraphed ritual. Commander gives it a pass for the same structural reason any sorcery-speed ritual survives multiplayer: three opponents with removal diffuse the pressure Seething Song generates, and you can only cast it once per turn cycle unless you're already storming off — at which point you're probably winning regardless.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01

Ral, Monsoon Mage

81.0% of decks · synergy 0.61

Ral, Monsoon Mage flips to his planeswalker side by casting instants and sorceries, and Seething Song counts toward that flip while simultaneously funding the spells that follow — it's an accelerant and a trigger in one.

02

Etali, Primal Conqueror

62.1% of decks · synergy 0.57

Etali, Primal Conqueror costs nine mana, and Seething Song is one of the fastest ways to close the gap between your mana base and the board on the turn you want to attack — the two extra mana it generates often cover a haste enabler or a second ramp spell.

03
Prismari, the Inspiration

Prismari, the Inspiration

70.5% of decks · synergy 0.50

Prismari, the Inspiration rewards casting expensive instants and sorceries, so Seething Song does double duty: it funds the big spells that trigger Prismari's discount and itself counts as a spell toward value generation.

04
Rionya, Fire Dancer

Rionya, Fire Dancer

78.1% of decks · synergy 0.47

Rionya, Fire Dancer creates creature tokens equal to the number of instants and sorceries cast this turn, so Seething Song is both a mana accelerant and a free increment on Rionya's count — casting it before your payoff creature means one extra copy on top of the mana it generated.

05
Ashling, Flame Dancer

Ashling, Flame Dancer

76.7% of decks · synergy 0.46

Ashling, Flame Dancer triggers off each noncreature spell cast, so Seething Song is fuel for her counters while also accelerating into the spells that trigger her again — the synergy is straightforward but the efficiency is real.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$2.86 cheap tier

At $2.86, Seething Song sits in budget territory for a ritual with genuine competitive pedigree. It's cheap enough that there's no reason to leave it out of any red spell-count or storm-adjacent Commander deck that can run it.

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