Torch Song
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may put a verse counter on this enchantment.
, Sacrifice this enchantment: It deals X damage to any target, where X is the number of verse counters on this enchantment.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Urza's Saga
- Price
- $0.24
- EDHREC rank
- #28049
Torch Song puts a growing damage clock on any target — each activation adds one to a permanent counter, so the third use hits for three and the fourth for four, compounding fast on a single enchantment. The setup cost is real: three mana to cast and two to activate means you need multiple turns to make it threatening, which is the ceiling on where it earns a slot.
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 |
Torch Song is a Commander card first and almost exclusively — the slower pace of 100-card games gives it the turns it needs to accumulate damage, and enchantment-matters commanders can squeeze extra value from the type line. In Legacy and Vintage, where it's technically legal, two-mana activated abilities on a do-nothing enchantment don't survive contact with the format's speed; no competitive shell wants it. Oathbreaker is the one fringe home outside Commander, where a burn-adjacent planeswalker strategy could use Torch Song as a repeatable pressure piece, though even there it's a niche pick.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.24 bulk tier
At $0.24, Torch Song is deep bulk — this is a card you pull from a dollar box, not one you track down. Bulk enchantments with narrow applications don't tend to spike, so there's no financial reason to hoard copies; just grab one if the deck calls for it.
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Sources
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.