Wildfire Emissary
Creature — Efreet
Protection from white
: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Battle Royale Box Set
- Price
- $0.18
- EDHREC rank
- #30302
Wildfire Emissary is a 3/4 with protection from white and the ability to pump itself for two mana — a passable body in 1994, a below-rate one now. Four mana for a vanilla-adjacent creature that doesn't generate card advantage or close games fast is a hard sell in any powered environment.
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 |
Wildfire Emissary is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but seeing play in almost none of them. In Pauper it's the most plausible home — common-legal, protection from white does real work against the format's removal suite — but four mana for a 3/4 with no ETB and no board impact still loses the rate war to almost every comparable threat. In Commander, Wildfire Emissary is outclassed on every axis; a 3/4 that pumps itself for two mana does nothing at a table where opponents are deploying seven-drops that warp the game. Legacy and Vintage don't want it at any price.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.18 bulk tier
At $0.18, Wildfire Emissary is deep bulk — buy a copy if a specific deck demands it, but there's no scarcity floor keeping the price from sitting here indefinitely. It holds value the way any bulk common does: it doesn't lose much because there's almost nowhere left to fall.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.