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Flamebraider

Creature — Elemental Bard1 generic manaRed mana

Restricted mana dorks are an old design lever: the ability to make big mana that only pays for a narrow band of spells. Priest of Titania and its kin tied the payout to the number of creatures in a tribe; this one pays a flat two mana of any colors and clamps it to a single ancestry. The color-freedom is the wrinkle worth sitting with. Most tribal ramp fixes only its own colors or is monocolored by default, so it can be awkward in a tribe that wants to splash. Here the two mana comes in whatever combination the caster needs, which turns a two-drop into both acceleration and fixing for an Elemental deck that wants to reach across the wheel. The restriction pays for that generosity honestly: the mana evaporates against anything that is not an Elemental spell or an Elemental source's ability, so there is no bleaking it into removal or a splashed bomb outside the theme. A 2/2 body keeps it from being pure ritual: it can crew, chump, or carry an aura once the ramp has done its work. The design bet is that a tribe deep enough to want this card will have enough Elemental targets that the narrowness never bites, and that the color flexibility is worth more to a splashy Elemental build than raw generic acceleration would be.

Flamebraider (ecl)
ECL · #139uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.22
Foil: $0.33
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Add two mana in any combination of colors. Spend this mana only to cast Elemental spells or activate abilities of Elemental sources.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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