Sunflare Shaman

Creature — Elemental Shaman

(1)(Red), Tap: Sunflare Shaman deals X damage to target creature or player and X damage to itself, where X is the number of Elemental cards in your graveyard.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (6)

weaponsmaximum on Elementals

3 years ago

Going to test out Inner-Flame Igniter, Inner-Flame Acolyte, Smokebraider, and Sunflare Shaman. Will update with results.

Andrew30001 on Elemental Commander (Horde of Notions)

4 years ago

CUTS:

Inferno Elemental - This is just, meh. It's an ok creature but isn't too useful compared to your other cards. Master of Waves - Great card, wrong deck. This card is great for a mono-blue deck, this is terrible for a multicolored deck. Maze Sentinel, Maze Rusher, Maze Glider, Maze Behemoth, Maze Abomination - Even though this is a multicolored deck, not enough of your creatures are multicolored for these to work well. Orchard Elemental - This will always be a six mana four four. The lifegain is not enough to make up for this small size. Primal Plasma - All three of these forms are way too small for four mana. Sunflare Shaman - This is a slow way to deal 4ish damage to a creature or player. Not too good. Yarok, the Desecrated - I don't think you have enough ETB effects for this to work good enough. Guardian of Vitu-Ghazi - This is a mediocre sized creature for the mana cost even with convoke and paying WUBRG to reanimate it is also a pretty bad cost. Cosi's Ravager - This card just does too little, especially for four mana. Ceaseless Searblades - Same as above, there aren't too many activated abilities so best case you'll get a four four for four that you need to activate two abilities for. Not too good.

DevourerOfDalias on Ashling, the Tiny

7 years ago

Commune with Lava Interesting Psuedo draw, fun to test at least Incandescent Soulstoke Flamekin Harbinger Sunflare Shaman Magmatic Chasm Again pretty interesting to test, not sure if actually good Flames of the Firebrand might have enough split damage with electrickery and savage alliance, just quite good though

Izu_Korasu on

7 years ago

im not sure master of waves fits here, most of the time he will probably make between 1-2 tokens, and the +1/+1 may not be worth enough to run him.

Caterwauling Boggart giving menace may be more useful, and cards like Lightning Coils or Whisperwood Elemental may have uses here aswell (sideboard) with Sunflare Shaman being an extra added finisher. but the sideboard needs work

Daynen on Tribal Deck: Elementals

7 years ago

If you run into creature bases that can actually stymie your agro, try Sunflare Shaman. In the odd case that the game runs long and your yard gets fat, he's a great alternative to swinging, especially if your opponent manages to get an Ensnaring Bridge or some sort of similar defense. Removal or finisher, he makes a useful trick; if you're of a mind to protect him from himself somehow, he can blast your foe again and again.

Goblingravy21 on R/u Elementals

7 years ago

Wirox, I've thought about Smokebraider, and initially planned to include it, but there are ample format staples of pauper that kill x/1s. It's also just not really a good turn 2 play for a deck that wants to beat down quickly.

I think you're probably right about Collateral Damage. I like it with Spark Elemental, but in any other case, Chain Lightning is better.

I'll definitely consider adding a fourth Mulldrifter. It feels like a good idea but I'm not sure I want to mess with my aggressive creature base.

I might cut Scorchwalker just for sheer poor card quality, though it works well with Sunflare Shaman.

Thanks for the advice!