Sunflare Shaman
Creature — Elemental Shaman
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: This creature deals X damage to any target and X damage to itself, where X is the number of Elemental cards in your graveyard.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Morningtide
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #27586
Sunflare Shaman trades damage for card draw in a clean, repeatable loop — every time a creature with a +1/+1 counter on it deals damage, you draw and discard, keeping your hand churning at no mana cost. The payoff is real in the right shell, but you need a counter engine already in place or Sunflare Shaman does nothing.
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 |
Commander is where Sunflare Shaman belongs — counter-based strategies like Atraxa, Praetors' Voice and Hamza, Guardian of Arashin supply enough creatures to turn the trigger into a draw engine that fires every combat. In Pauper, common-legal aggressive shells rarely have the counter density to make it consistent, and there are simpler draw options at the same mana cost. Legacy and Vintage have the tools to break the looping draw if you want to engineer it, but those formats move too fast for a three-mana creature with no immediate board impact to matter. Sunflare Shaman is functionally a Commander card.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Sunflare Shaman is deep bulk — grab a copy without thinking twice. Bulk rares with a specific niche rarely spike hard, so don't expect the price to move unless a counter-themed commander becomes a format staple.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.