Pyretic Charge

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Pyretic Charge: Sorcery, Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander. Discard your hand, then draw four cards. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{4}{R}
Mana value
5
Type
Sorcery
Colour identity
Red (R)
Rarity
Rare
Set
Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC)
Released
2024-04-19
Collector number
29
Artist
Slawomir Maniak
Commander rank
10,009 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Plot

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About Pyretic Charge

Pyretic Charge is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare red sorcery from Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC), a Commander product released in April 2024. It is collector number 29 in that set, with art by Slawomir Maniak. It costs {4}{R} (four generic and one red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 5. Its colour identity is red. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.55 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-11).

Card text

Discard your hand, then draw four cards. For each card discarded this way, creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Plot {3}{R} (You may pay {3}{R} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.55 (as of 2026-11-11).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Pyretic Charge by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal

Other printings of Pyretic Charge

The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC) #65Rare2024

Official rulings

Six official rulings apply to Pyretic Charge, newest first.

  • If you’re casting a plotted card from exile without paying its mana cost, you can’t choose to cast it for any other alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the plotted card has any mandatory additional costs, those must still be paid to cast the spell.
  • Plot abilities are written “Plot [cost],” which means “Any time you have priority during your main phase while the stack is empty, you may pay [cost] and exile this card from your hand. It becomes plotted.”
  • If a plotted card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.
  • You can’t cast a plotted card on the same turn it became plotted. On any future turn, you may cast that card from exile without paying its mana cost during your main phase while the stack is empty.
  • Exiling a card using its plot ability is a special action. Once you announce you’re taking that action, no other player can respond by trying to remove that card from your hand.
  • Pyretic Charge affects only creatures you control at the time it resolves. Creatures you begin to control later in the turn and noncreature permanents that become creatures later in the turn won’t get +1/+0 for each card discarded this way.

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