Engineered Explosives
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SetMB2
Collector #218
Released2024-08-02
Rarityrare
ArtistRon Spears
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
AttributesReprint
ScryfallOpen ↗

Engineered Explosives

RareMV 0
Artifact
Sunburst (This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)
, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this artifact.
Keywords
Sunburst
Card capabilities
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
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Rulings (4)
wotc7 Aug 2020
Tokens that aren't a copy of something else don't have a mana cost. Anything without a mana cost normally has a mana value of 0.
wotc7 Aug 2020
Colorless mana won't give Engineered Explosives another charge counter. Colorless is not a color.
wotc7 Aug 2020
You can choose any value for X as you cast Engineered Explosives. The value chosen for X doesn't directly affect the number of charge counters Engineered Explosives enters the battlefield with, but it does let you pay more mana and thus spend more colors of mana to cast it.
wotc7 Aug 2020
If a permanent has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.