Shower of Coals
Sorcery
Shower of Coals deals 2 damage to each of up to three targets.
Threshold — Shower of Coals deals 4 damage to each of those permanents and/or players instead if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #29147
Shower of Coals deals 4 damage split across any number of targets for five mana — and with threshold, it deals 4 to each target instead. Without threshold, it's overcosted; with it, it's a one-sided board wipe stapled to a burn spell.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Shower of Coals is a niche inclusion in red decks that can reliably hit threshold — graveyard-hungry commanders like Feldon of the Third Path or Neheb, the Eternal can make the upgrade consistent enough to matter. The payoff when active is real: 4 damage to each of multiple targets at instant speed clears x/4 tokens and punishes go-wide strategies hard. Legacy and Vintage are legal but irrelevant; neither format wants a five-mana conditional sweeper when cheaper, unconditional options exist. Shower of Coals lives and dies in Commander, and only in the right shell.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Shower of Coals is deep bulk — you'll find it in a bulk bin long before you need to order it. Bulk rares rarely appreciate unless a deck archetype breaks out around them, and nothing on the horizon changes that calculus here.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.