Vengeful Firebrand
Creature — Elemental Warrior
This creature has haste as long as a Warrior card is in your graveyard.
: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Morningtide
- Price
- $0.28
- EDHREC rank
- #27078
Vengeful Firebrand enters as a 5/1 trampling haste threat the turn a creature dies — premium stats for three mana when the trigger fires. The cost is real: it's a 1/1 without a dead creature to fuel it, which makes it a liability in opening hands before combat starts.
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 | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Vengeful Firebrand fits cleanly into sacrifice and aggro shells — three mana for a 5/1 trample haste is legitimately threatening in a format where combat damage actually closes games. Competitive Legacy and Vintage have no use for it; those formats demand unconditional threats at this cost, and a conditional 1/1 doesn't clear the bar. Modern is technically legal but similarly uninterested — aggressive red decks there have better three-drops with no strings attached. Vengeful Firebrand is a Commander card, full stop, and even there it earns its slot only in decks that generate consistent creature deaths.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.28 bulk tier
At $0.28, Vengeful Firebrand is pure bulk — easy to pick up as a throw-in or from a common box. Demand is narrow enough that it won't climb without a sudden spike in sacrifice-commander popularity, so buy it when you need it and don't expect the price to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.