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Red Ramp

Every red card in Magic that gets you more mana than one land a turn, sorted by how many tracked decks actually run it

Last computed 3 Sep 2026 · recomputed weekly
30
Red ramp cards ranked
What it costs
Two mana or less
9
Three mana
11
Four or more
10

Mana value of the 30 red ramp cards ranked below. Lands count as zero.

What are the best red ramp cards in MTG?

The best red ramp cards in MTG are the ones players actually reach for, and a handful of those measurably raise your win rate. The list below ranks every mono-red ramp card in Magic: The Gathering by how many tracked Commander decks run it, counted from real games on Playgroup.gg. Where a card has been played enough for us to measure its effect on winning, and that effect is clearly positive, its win-rate lift is shown beside the count.

Red ramp clusters at three mana: 11 of the 30 cards below, 37% of the list.

Deck counts are drawn from 146,944 tracked decks on Playgroup.gg.

See ramp in every color on the main list.

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The most-played mono-red ramp cards

Ranked by the number of tracked decks running the card, not by a rating. A win-rate lift appears beside the few cards whose measured effect on winning is clearly positive.

9,426
Decks running Jeska's Will
# Card Decks
1
Jeska's Will
Jeska's Will {2} {R} +1.2% win rate · 18,784 games with it · 2148 pilots · 698 commander groups 		9,426
2
Big Score
Big Score {3} {R} +0.5% win rate · 12,648 games with it · 2093 pilots · 495 commander groups 		8,118
3
Professional Face-Breaker
Professional Face-Breaker {2} {R} 		6,221
4
Storm-Kiln Artist
Storm-Kiln Artist {3} {R} +0.6% win rate · 9,249 games with it · 1583 pilots · 261 commander groups 		5,992
5
Mana Geyser
Mana Geyser {3} {R} {R} +0.4% win rate · 8,112 games with it · 1395 pilots · 369 commander groups 		5,385
6
Goldspan Dragon
Goldspan Dragon {3} {R} {R} +1.2% win rate · 9,683 games with it · 1404 pilots · 249 commander groups 		4,826
7
Unexpected Windfall
Unexpected Windfall {2} {R} {R} +0.0% win rate · 7,121 games with it · 1228 pilots · 364 commander groups 		4,779
8
Seething Song
Seething Song {2} {R} 		4,387
9
Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer {R} 		4,293
10
Cursed Mirror
Cursed Mirror {2} {R} 		3,802
Show 20 more red ramp cards (ranks 11-30)
# Card Decks
11
The Reaver Cleaver
The Reaver Cleaver {2} {R} +0.1% win rate · 6,032 games with it · 999 pilots · 239 commander groups 		3,684
12
Simian Spirit Guide
Simian Spirit Guide {2} {R} 		3,103
13
Ancient Copper Dragon
Ancient Copper Dragon {4} {R} {R} +1.5% win rate · 5,876 games with it · 852 pilots · 176 commander groups 		3,086
14
Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty 		2,823
15
Curse of Opulence
Curse of Opulence {R} 		2,806
16
Seize the Spoils
Seize the Spoils {2} {R} 		2,804
17
Fire Diamond
Fire Diamond {2} 		2,314
18
Rite of Flame
Rite of Flame {R} 		2,275
19
Descent into Avernus
Descent into Avernus {2} {R} +0.1% win rate · 4,658 games with it · 657 pilots · 223 commander groups 		2,248
20
Mines of Moria
Mines of Moria 		2,188
21
Pyretic Ritual
Pyretic Ritual {1} {R} +0.5% win rate · 3,128 games with it · 479 pilots · 131 commander groups 		2,167
22
Shiny Impetus
Shiny Impetus {2} {R} 		2,156
23
Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
Atsushi, the Blazing Sky {2} {R} {R} 		2,080
24
Captain Lannery Storm
Captain Lannery Storm {2} {R} 		1,904
25
Great Train Heist
Great Train Heist {R} +1.6% win rate · 3,610 games with it · 571 pilots · 199 commander groups 		1,882
26
Cavern-Hoard Dragon
Cavern-Hoard Dragon {7} {R} {R} 		1,817
27
Skirk Prospector
Skirk Prospector {R} 		1,803
28
Bonehoard Dracosaur
Bonehoard Dracosaur {3} {R} {R} 		1,738
29
Rain of Riches
Rain of Riches {3} {R} {R} 		1,707
30
Strike It Rich
Strike It Rich {R} 		1,687
Other colors

Ramp in the other colors

A red deck can also run every colorless mana rock, and most Commander decks are not mono-colored:

White ramp Blue ramp Black ramp Green ramp Colorless ramp
Methodology

How this list is built

The candidate pool is every Commander-legal card carrying Scryfall's ramp oracle tag with a mono-red color identity. That covers land ramp, mana rocks and creatures, rituals and cost reduction, minus cards whose only mana effect is to hand a land to an opponent, which are removal spells. Multicolor cards are excluded on purpose: a red ramp card should go in any red deck. Each card is counted across every non-archived tracked deck whose mainboard contains it, and the list is ordered by that count.

Most ramp cards do not measurably change whether you win. We compare decks that run a card against decks on the same commander that do not, pool those matched comparisons, and ask whether the difference is bigger than chance; only a handful of cards clear that bar. Ordering a list by a number whose confidence interval crosses zero for most of its rows would be ranking sampling error, so the list is ordered by deck count instead and the measurement rides alongside.

A win-rate lift appears beside a card only when it has been played enough to judge and its measured effect is clearly positive: minimums on games with the card, on separate commander groups and on distinct pilots, a cap on how much of the sample any one pilot may hold, and an interval landing entirely above zero. A card that was measured and came out flat gets an empty cell rather than a number near zero, because a number near zero reads as a verdict and this one is not.

Read that figure as a difference, not a multiplier. A +2.2% lift means a deck running the card wins 2.2 percentage points more often than decks on the same commander without it: 27.2% of its games rather than 25.0%. It is not a 2.2% relative increase, and it is not a claim that the card wins 2.2% of your games on its own.

Counts are drawn from 146,944 tracked decks on Playgroup.gg.

Read the full methodology on the main ramp page

Red ramp FAQ

What is ramp in Magic: The Gathering?
Ramp is any card that gets you more mana than the one land you are allowed to play each turn. It covers lands that fetch other lands, artifacts that tap for mana, creatures that do the same, rituals that give you a burst of mana for a single turn, and effects that make your spells cheaper. The name comes from ramping up: spend a card early to spend more mana later. In Commander it matters more than in shorter formats, because the games are long enough for that investment to pay off several times over.
Which color has the best ramp?
Green, and it is not close. Green ramps by putting extra lands onto the battlefield, which is permanent, hard to punish and available from turn two. Cultivate, Rampant Growth and Farseek are the cards every other color gets measured against. Black ramps through rituals and sacrifice, red makes treasure tokens for one explosive turn, white taxes its opponents rather than fetching anything, and blue mostly cheats on cost instead of adding mana. Colorless mana rocks are open to every deck, which is why Sol Ring is the most-run ramp card in Commander by a wide margin.
Are mana rocks the same thing as ramp?
Mana rocks are one kind of ramp. A rock is an artifact that taps for mana, like Sol Ring or Arcane Signet, and because artifacts are colorless almost every deck can play them. That is why the colorless list here is the one every color shares. The alternative is land ramp, which puts real lands onto the battlefield instead, and it survives a board wipe that would kill your rocks.
What counts as land ramp?
Land ramp is any card that puts an extra land onto the battlefield, rather than giving you a mana ability on a spell or an artifact. Cultivate, Rampant Growth, Farseek and Three Visits are the ones people mean, and they are counted on these lists like any other ramp. They are almost all green, which is why green's list reads as sorceries where every other color reaches for artifacts. Cards that give a land to an opponent instead of you, like Path to Exile, are removal spells and are excluded.
Why are there no multicolor ramp cards on this list?
Every list here is mono-colored on purpose. A mono-red ramp spell goes in any deck whose color identity includes red, while a two or three color ramp spell only fits decks in those exact colors. Restricting each list to a single color identity means every card on it is playable in every deck that can cast that color, which is usually what people are asking for when they search for red ramp.
Why is red's ramp all treasure tokens?
Because red is allowed to have mana right now and not to keep it. Almost every red ramp card makes treasure, which is a one-shot artifact you sacrifice for a single mana of any color, and red makes them by attacking, by sacrificing, or by dealing damage. That gives red the most explosive single turn of any color and nothing at all the turn after. Rituals like Rite of Flame work the same way. It is also why red's ramp arrives on spells and creatures rather than on cheap artifacts: the mana comes as a side effect of doing something else.
Why does this list look different from other ramp lists?
Most ramp lists are one writer's ranking. This one is counted. Every card here carries Scryfall's ramp tag, ordered by how many tracked Commander decks actually run it, so the list reflects what players sleeve up rather than what an editor rates. We also measure whether each card raises a deck's win rate against decks running the same commander without it, and only the few that clearly do carry a win-rate figure.
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