Spawning Breath
Instant
Spawning Breath deals 1 damage to any target. Create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add 
."
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Rise of the Eldrazi
- Price
- $0.30
- EDHREC rank
- #15509
Spawning Breath puts a 1/1 token on the board and deals 1 damage to any target — two effects on one instant for one red mana, which is already a fine rate. The real ceiling is Zada, Hedron Grinder: copy Spawning Breath for every creature you control and that 1/1 becomes an army while the damage clause clears out blockers or closes out a game.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Zada, Hedron Grinder
Zada, Hedron Grinder copies Spawning Breath once for each other creature you control, turning a single spell into a token flood and a damage sweep simultaneously — it's one of the cleanest one-mana enablers in the deck precisely because both halves scale with the copy trigger.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Spawning Breath is a fringe card everywhere except the specific Commander shells that break it. In Commander, it's a near-auto-include in Zada, Hedron Grinder builds and sees scattered play in other token or spell-copy strategies. In Pauper it's legal but competes with strictly better token generators and damage spells that don't ask you to split the effect. Legacy and Vintage allow it, but one damage and one 1/1 is far below the power threshold those formats demand. The card's home is Commander, full stop.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.30 bulk tier
At $0.30, Spawning Breath sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to pick up as a throw-in or out of a common box. Bulk rares and uncommons with narrow but real homes like this tend to stay flat, so don't expect movement in either direction.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.