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Molten Exhale

Sorcery1 generic manaRed mana

Behold buys back a timing restriction, and this is one of the cleaner illustrations of what that trade costs. Four damage to a creature or planeswalker at two mana is a strong rate for a sorcery, and the card adds instant speed on top of it, but only if you can show a Dragon: either one already on the battlefield or a card in your hand you reveal. That conditional flash is the whole design lever. Red already owns instant-speed burn, so this is not about granting red an ability it lacks; it is about pricing a sorcery-rate spell and then selling the instant-speed mode back to you at the cost of committing to Dragons in your deck. The entry fee is almost never paid in mana or cards: a Dragon you control satisfies it for free, and even from an empty board a Dragon in hand does the job by revealing rather than discarding. What the fee actually gates is deckbuilding direction. It steers you toward a build that fields Dragons rather than a removal spell you can splash anywhere. Cast it dry with no Dragon to show and it is a serviceable sorcery-speed burn spell; cast it with a Dragon behind you and it waits for an attacker to overcommit or a planeswalker to tick up, then answers at end of turn.

Molten Exhale (tdm)
TDM · #113common
Pricing
Normal: $0.12
Foil: $0.15
Oracle Text

Rules text

You may cast this spell as though it had flash if you behold a Dragon as an additional cost to cast it. (To behold a Dragon, choose a Dragon you control or reveal a Dragon card from your hand.) Molten Exhale deals 4 damage to target creature or planeswalker.
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
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
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Gladiator
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Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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