Sulfuric Vapors
Enchantment
If a red spell would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals that much damage plus 1 to that permanent or player instead.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Urza's Saga
- Price
- $0.45
- EDHREC rank
- #25765
Sulfuric Vapors makes every red instant and sorcery deal one extra damage to each target — a permanent, stackable damage bonus that compounds fast in spell-heavy decks. The four-mana enchantment is worth it the turn it lands if you fire off even two spells, and it snowballs from there.
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, Sulfuric Vapors is a role-player in dedicated red spell-slinger decks — it does nothing on an empty board and rewards you only if you're casting red instants and sorceries in volume, so it earns its slot in Neheb or Torbran shells and gets cut from everything else. Legacy sees fringe interest as a redundant burn amplifier in storm-adjacent lists, but the format's interaction density makes a tapped-out four-mana enchantment a risky line. Vintage is technically legal but the card has no realistic place there. Oathbreaker is the other format worth noting — spell-focused red oathbreakers with a burn signature spell can use Sulfuric Vapors to push their damage totals over the finish line faster, making it a legitimate include in the right shell.
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Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.45 bulk tier
At $0.45, Sulfuric Vapors is bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a niche enchantment with a narrow but real application in red spell-slinger Commander decks. The price is stable; demand is too low to move it up and the card is niche enough that it won't drop further.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.