Slaying Fire

Instant

Slaying Fire deals 3 damage to target creature, player or planeswalker.

Adamant — If at least three red mana was spent to cast this spell, it deals 4 damage instead.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Standard Brawl	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (19)

plakjekaas on How Can Mono-Colored Cards be …

1 month ago

The problem with printing cards that are rewards for monocolor decks, is that they're either just not good enough, like Slaying Fire or instant expensive staples, like Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx. Because if the effect is good enough, the two-color decks will consider playing it too, think Cabal Coffers+Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth. Monocolor decks make the sacrifice of devoting to that color, and accepting its weaknesses. The best way to combat those weaknesses, is to add a color. The payoff is the manabase consistency, and leveraging the strength of the color you picked. There's a few Caged Sun or Throne of Eldraine-type cards that possibly could slot in every monocolor deck. But the fun of building a monocolor deck (I'm talking commander here) is to deepen out your limited cardpool to get the job done in a way most multicolor decks won't expect because it uses cards you normally wouldn't see in multicolor decks.

To get back on topic, in the OPs examples, if the monocolored option for similar effect is actually better, it's probably printed more recently and therefor more powerful. That's the case with Psychic Strike vs Thought Collapse and for as similar as they are (differences were already pointed out) for Merciless Eviction and Farewell. Final Judgment in its turn is older than that, and therefor more limited in application than Merciless Eviction, which is the newer card out of the two.

Aurelia's Fury vs Rolling Thunder is a bad comparison. The silence- and tap effects make the card a lot more versatile. With Aurelia's Fury you could ping a player to stop them from comboing, tap down three blockers to swing in for lethal, where Rolling Thunder only offers straight up removal or burn to the face, which Fury can do as well. Still, Rolling Thunder was printed in 1997 where Aurelia's Fury was printed in 2015.

What OP's describing is powercreep, and it's not restricted by colors.

itsbuzzi on Chandra, Dressed to Win

1 year ago

Hey, I saw your deck a little while ago and then your post on enchantment removal. I had a deck that started like this {technically I got a Red Burn pre con and went from there) and later added white for the enchantment removal. You can find my link here: Naya Burn Pioneer List. It was a private deck so the description is really just notes to myself.

Basically it's a straight up burn list, whatever can deal the most face damage is in. I took out all the wizards because I didn't like having to have a creature out for Wizard's Lightning and splashed white for main deck Boros Charm and Green for Atarka's Command (mainly the deal 3 and buff creatures giving a double buff to prowess creatures but having main deck "Can't Gain Life" is nice too).

I like your deck though! Bonecrusher is a great card I just opted for Eidolon of the Great Revel for more face burn but I could see Slaying Fire dealing 4 easy in your list, mine perhaps not as much especially at 3 mana.

Main deck I reduced it to 2 mana and have the Light Up the Stage to keep going through the deck. Sideboard I have some 3 drops like Chandra which is amazing as you know and I put in Squee, Dubious Monarch for a more removal heavy deck where I can't just board out all my creatures. Phoenix Chick is decent, it could be upgraded but the flying is surprisingly still good evasion to get in that 1 damage for spectacle.

I'd be interested in your thoughts as it seems your sideboard covers all bases and the list seems well built. After a good deal of play testing I found that you can in fact out race some decks and just straight up not run certain removals. I think Greesefang is the quickest graveyard deck and still by T3 we can deal a good amount of face damage with still another turn after their deck goes off.

Sorin_Markov_1947 on Dwarves & Dragons

4 years ago

You could play on MTGA and not worry as much about prices. It's online so you can still play, and once you build up a collection you only need to spend a few wildcards now and then.

As for card suggestions, a fourth Magda seems necessary. Even if she's legendary, she's one of your best cards and will likely be removed quickly. Rimrock Knight is also good here as an aggressive dwarf.

Slaying Fire and Volcanic Geyser are pretty bad for burn nowadays. Frost Bite is a good one, and if you're really looking for that four damage, Thundering Rebuke gets you there. Shatterskull Smashing  ^Flip for a mana sink burn.

I can't imagine Bonecrusher Giant being bad here. He's not a dwarf, but he is one of the best all-around spells in red. I like the manabase, but you could use a few more lands if you're looking to get to Purphoros and other big creatures. Maybe a few more Castle Embereths as well. And while you're on equipment and aggro red, Embercleave !

Obviously if you're staying in paper, some of these aren't exactly budget.

Kogarashi on Can Chromatic Orrery trigger color …

4 years ago

Spending {C} as though it was {R} doesn't change the fact that it's colorless, not red. Adamant would not apply.

From the Gatherer rulings for Slaying Fire:

• Adamant effects check what mana was actually spent to cast a spell. If an effect allows you to spend mana “as though it were mana” of any color or type, that allows you to spend mana you couldn’t otherwise spend, but it doesn’t change what mana you spent to cast the spell. (2019-10-04)

Additionally, colorless is not a color, so you can't spend mana as though it were specifically {C}.

Polaris on Can Chromatic Orrery trigger color …

4 years ago

As far as I know, the “you may spend mana as if it were mana of any color” line on Chromatic Orrery is unique. What I want to know is this: If you spend as, say, while casting Slaying Fire, will this count for the adamant requirement, or will the game still see it as you having spent ? In other words, does the "as if" just mean it can fulfill costs of any color, or does the game treat it as basically transmuting the mana when it's spent?

As a related question, will this let you spend colored mana on OGW costs, since colorless isn't technically “any color”?

Ebro on This Is America

4 years ago

I hadn’t actually thought of The Birth of Meletis that’s a really good idea. Question though involving Slaying Fire are their any other instant spells out there that do what Chandra's Outrage does but for a cheaper cmc? For the moment, at least until I can get my hands on more wild cards chandras outrage is kinda all I have of it’s kind. Ideally I’d kill a creature or better yet exile it, then deal damage with the same card

DanMcSharp on This Is America

4 years ago

The interaction with Dovin's Acuity is a good point for Chandra's Outrage, but then again I'm sure there would be better options, maybe Slaying Fire?

If you struggle with life-gain mostly for dealing with aggro decks, you should try The Birth of Meletis, it doesn't look like much but it's an incredibly useful card that actually sees a lot of play, and for good reasons. It would allow you to play more untapped lands as well as drawing your more lands, should be very beneficial.

Grind on Torbran EDH

5 years ago

cool deck! i am building a new mono red edh deck and i found some cards in your list i may use.
my thoughts, Lightning Bolt over Slaying Fire?
also i am very psyched about the new Thrill of Possibility! it is like an instant speed Tormenting Voice, what is not to like. i think it is auto-include in every mono red edh deck.
also Starstorm and Magmaquake are also options.
also i know it is terrible but i always liked the idea of running Urza's Armor but i just cant justify the 6 cmc. but it would make Pyrohemia soo good!
also maybe Mana Geyser? idk
and i would run Rummaging Goblin and/or Faithless Looting over Merchant of the Vale.
finally i usually run like 37 lands at least. sometimes i get flooded but its nice to hit those land drops and avoid situation #3

hope my thoughts are helpful keep having fun!! cheers