Slaying Fire
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Throne of EldraineELD · #143
- Card type
- Instant
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.04 € · ★ 0.32 € · 0.15 $ · ★ 0.32 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- Red
Card text
Slaying Fire deals 3 damage to any target. Adamant — If at least three red mana was spent to cast this spell, it deals 4 damage instead.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Heonhwa
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2019-10-04
Flavour text
The purest virtue burns brighter than the sun and hotter than dragonfire.
Rulings
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.
If an effect allows you to cast a spell without paying its mana cost, you can't choose to cast it and pay unless another rule or effect allows you to cast that spell for a cost. Similarly, you can't waive a cost reduction unless that effect says you may.
If an instant or sorcery spell has an adamant ability, you perform the spell's instructions in order. You don't perform the adamant instruction before the spell resolves or before any other effects printed above it.
If you copy a spell that has an adamant ability, no mana was spent to cast the copy at all, so that ability won't apply.