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Flaring Cinder

Creature — Elemental Sorcerer1 generic manaBlue or Red manaBlue or Red mana

The rummage-on-a-body has always been a rate problem: looting effects want to run cheap, but stapling one to a creature usually means overpaying for the stats. This threads that by charging its filter twice, once when the body lands and again whenever you cast something heavy, so the discard-then-draw only recurs if your deck is actually reaching into the four-plus range. That constraint is what shapes it: it is not a loot engine you drop into any Izzet shell, it is one that rewards a curve top-heavy enough to keep triggering it, and it hands you the selection to find those expensive spells while smoothing away the dead early draws. The trigger is also a may with a discard cost, which means it never mills you against your will and never forces a pitch you cannot afford, a small design courtesy that keeps it playable even when your hand is already lean. As a 3/2 it is a real clock rather than a parked value piece, so the filtering happens while you are attacking. The obvious partners are spells you would happily discard and recur: reanimation targets, flashback cards, anything with a graveyard second life. What it is genuinely for is the deck that wants to sculpt toward one big turn without dedicating a whole card to card selection, and that is a narrower ask than the loose "draws you cards" reading suggests.

Flaring Cinder (ecl)
ECL · #225common
Pricing
Normal: $0.17
Foil: $0.11
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this creature enters and whenever you cast a spell with mana value 4 or greater, you may discard a card. If you do, draw a card.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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