Magic: The Gathering

Crown of Flames

Tempest 169 • common

Set: Tempest
Collector number: 169
Rarity: Common
Mana cost: red mana
Type: Enchantment
Colors: Red
Artist: William O'Connor
Market price: $0.32

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Market

What it's worth

$0.32market price via TCGplayer · Aug 19, 2026$0.31 – $0.37 over the tracked period

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Lore

Why it matters

As a common card from the Tempest set, Crown of Flames is a staple piece that showcases the iconic illustrative style of William O'Connor. This enchantment is a valued addition for collectors who appreciate the foundational cards that helped define the early history of the game.

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Card face

What it does

Enchant creature

red mana: Enchanted creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.

red mana: Return this Aura to its owner's hand.

It is the forge of kings.

Formats

Where you can play it

StandardNot legal
PioneerNot legal
ModernNot legal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
PauperLegal
BrawlNot legal
HistoricNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Penny DreadfulNot legal
OathbreakerLegal

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Provenance

Where it came from

Crown of Flames was released in 1997 as part of the Tempest expansion for Magic: The Gathering. As a common enchantment card, it belongs to a set renowned for introducing mechanics like buyback and shadow, which significantly altered the game's competitive landscape at the time. The card was designed to function within the aggressive red color identity, providing a repeatable pump effect that allowed players to sink excess mana into creature power.

The card’s visual identity was captured by fantasy illustrator William O'Connor, whose work often appeared throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s in various role-playing game publications and card sets. O'Connor’s illustration for Crown of Flames focuses on the volatile, elemental nature of the enchantment, emphasizing jagged, fiery aesthetics that complemented the expansion's thematic focus on the atmospheric and intense setting of the Rath plane.

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Other printings

Every version of this card

The same card, printed again — different sets, treatments, and prices.

Crown of FlamesInvasion · #142 · common · 2000$0.28

Collectors

Who's collecting this

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David Fefferman
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About

About Crown of Flames

Crown of Flames is a card in the Magic: The Gathering catalog on collecto.rs. Tempest 169 • common. Catalog data is sourced from Scryfall. 1 collector on collecto.rs publicly track this card.

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