Spire Barrage
Sorcery
Spire Barrage deals damage to any target equal to the number of Mountains you control.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Zendikar
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #22349
Spire Barrage deals damage equal to the number of Mountains you control — in a deck with 20 Mountains, that's a 20-damage instant at six mana, enough to kill a player outright. It's a one-shot finisher in mono-red land-matters or Mountain-heavy builds, and a blank in anything else.
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 |
In Commander, Spire Barrage earns its slot only in decks that deliberately stack Mountains — think Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle synergies, Ashaya landfall builds in mono-red, or dedicated Mountain-count commanders. In Pauper, it's a fringe burn finisher in mono-red where basic Mountains dominate the mana base, though six mana is steep for the format's tempo. Legacy and Vintage have no interest — faster, more reliable kill conditions exist at every point on the curve. The card is exactly as powerful as your Mountain count and exactly as useless as your splash count.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Spire Barrage is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not the card. That price is stable indefinitely; there's no competitive demand to push it, and casual Mountain builds can pick up a playset for the cost of a sleeve.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.