Sizzling Barrage
Instant
Sizzling Barrage deals 4 damage to target creature that blocked this turn.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Zendikar Rising
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #25520
Sizzling Barrage deals 4 damage to a blocking creature for one red mana — but only a blocking creature, which makes it a combat trick rather than flexible removal. That restriction is real enough to keep it out of most serious lists.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Sizzling Barrage is too conditional to earn a slot — opponents choose whether to block, and in a multiplayer game you rarely need to push through one blocker badly enough to spend a card on it. Pauper is the format where it has the most plausible home, since the common-only card pool thins out instant-speed combat tricks and one mana is a real rate. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer the competition from unconditional burn at the same cost is simply too stiff for Sizzling Barrage to see play.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Sizzling Barrage is deep bulk — the kind of card that costs more to ship than to buy. There's no realistic demand driver that moves a conditional combat trick off the floor, so the price is stable in the way that irrelevance is stable.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.