Flare of Fortitude card art

Flare of Fortitude

Instant MV 4

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

What it does

You may sacrifice a nontoken white creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Until end of turn, your life total can't change, and permanents you control gain hexproof and indestructible.

Combos with Flare of Fortitude

The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

9 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2024-06-07

    Spells and abilities that would normally cause you to gain or lose life still resolve while your life total can't change, but the life-gain or life-loss part simply has no effect.

  • 2024-06-07

    The effect of Flare of Fortitude doesn't prevent damage. Rather, it changes the results of that damage. For example, if a creature with lifelink deals damage to you, you won't lose any life, but its controller will still gain that much life. Similarly, if a creature you control with lifelink deals damage to another player, that player will lose life but you won't gain any life.

  • 2024-06-07

    In a Commander game, the damage dealt to you by commanders will still be counted, even if that damage doesn't cause you to lose life.

  • 2024-06-07

    If an effect says to set your life total to a certain number, that part of the effect won't do anything.

  • 2024-06-07

    Effects that replace an event with having you gain life (like Words of Worship's effect does) or having you lose life will end up replacing the event with nothing.

  • 2024-06-07

    Effects that would replace having you gain life with some other event won't be able to be applied because it's impossible for you to gain life.

  • 2024-06-07

    If a cost would include causing you to gain life, that cost can't be paid. Similarly, you can't pay a cost that includes the payment of any amount of life other than 0 life. However, you can choose to be dealt damage, even though that damage won't result in your life total changing.

  • 2024-06-07

    If an effect would cause you to exchange life totals with another player, the exchange won't happen. Neither player's life total changes.

  • 2024-06-07

    Abilities that trigger whenever damage is dealt to you will still trigger because that damage is still dealt, even though your life total doesn't change as a result.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Flare of Fortitude, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 9
Games played 3
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Colors it shows up in

  • Mono-White 2 decks
  • Selesnya 2 decks
  • Esper 2 decks
  • Orzhov 1 deck

Flare of Fortitude price history

The Modern Horizons 3 #26 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly.

Non-foil today$5.82▲ $0.70 (13.7%)
Low $4.70 · High $5.82Tracked since Sep 28, 2026
Every recorded price change
DateNon-foilFoil
Oct 27, 2026$5.82$5.86
Oct 26, 2026$5.82$5.86
Oct 25, 2026$5.51$5.84
Oct 24, 2026$5.55$5.84
Oct 23, 2026$5.58$5.79
Oct 22, 2026$5.57$5.79
Oct 21, 2026$5.79$5.83
Oct 20, 2026$5.49$5.93
Oct 19, 2026$5.69$5.81
Oct 18, 2026$5.52$5.81
Oct 17, 2026$5.20$5.96
Oct 16, 2026$5.10$5.81
Oct 15, 2026$4.85$5.69
Oct 14, 2026$4.94$5.65
Oct 13, 2026$5.20$5.68
Oct 12, 2026$5.22$5.68
Oct 11, 2026$5.20$5.68
Oct 10, 2026$5.13$5.68
Oct 9, 2026$5.05$5.42
Oct 8, 2026$4.84$5.42
Oct 7, 2026$4.97$5.30
Oct 6, 2026$4.90$5.33
Oct 5, 2026$4.80$5.33
Oct 4, 2026$4.70$5.33
Oct 3, 2026$4.87$5.34
Oct 2, 2026$5.10$5.44
Oct 1, 2026$5.19$5.50
Sep 30, 2026$5.26$5.50
Sep 29, 2026$4.99$5.50
Sep 28, 2026$5.12$5.39

A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.

Every version of Flare of Fortitude

4 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Flare of Fortitude. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.