Welding Sparks
Instant
Welding Sparks deals X damage to target creature, where X is 3 plus the number of artifacts you control.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Kaladesh
- Price
- $0.05
- EDHREC rank
- #16579
Welding Sparks deals damage equal to the number of artifacts you control plus three, which in any artifact-heavy shell routinely hits for eight or more at instant speed for three mana. Solid situational burn, but its ceiling is entirely dependent on your board state — dead in your opening hand, live when you're ahead.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Welding Sparks earns a slot in artifact-centric decks where the artifact count routinely climbs past five or six, turning it into unconditional creature removal that incidentally scales into planeswalker range. Outside of dedicated artifact shells it's too variable — a three-mana spell that might deal four damage doesn't compete with the format's staple removal. In Pauper, artifact synergy decks like Affinity can make Welding Sparks reliable early removal at common rarity, which matters on a tight budget. Modern and Legacy have no interest in it; those formats demand efficiency that a conditional burn spell can't guarantee.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.05 bulk tier
At $0.05, Welding Sparks is pure bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not the card. That price is stable because demand is narrow: it sees real play only in artifact-heavy Commander builds and Pauper, neither of which drives meaningful price movement.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.