Torrent of Fire
Sorcery
Torrent of Fire deals damage to any target equal to the greatest mana value among permanents you control.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Scourge
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #27745
Torrent of Fire deals damage equal to the converted mana cost of a spell you control to any target — staple it to a high-CMC permanent and it punches hard. The catch is the dependency: without a beefy spell in play to reference, it's a worse Lightning Bolt at sorcery speed.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Torrent of Fire earns a slot only in decks that regularly cast expensive spells and want redundant burn to close out games or answer a problem creature — think Jodah, Archmage Eternal or similar high-CMC shells where the damage ceiling climbs past six or seven. In Pauper, the competition is brutal: Lightning Bolt and Skred simply do the job more reliably, and Torrent of Fire's sorcery speed and conditional scaling keep it on the fringe. Legacy and Vintage have access to every burn spell ever printed, so Torrent of Fire doesn't register as a serious option. Oathbreaker mirrors the Commander read — the smaller deck size makes consistency easier, but the format's faster pace punishes sorcery-speed removal.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Torrent of Fire is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. There's no meaningful price floor to fall through, and no realistic demand spike on the horizon, so treat it as freely available and move on.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.