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Engineered Explosives

Engineered Explosives

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Artifact

Sunburst (This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)

{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this artifact.

At the point of impact, a photon torpedo mixes matter and antimatter to powerful effect.

Illustrated by

Star TrekStar Trek#480·Rare·English
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Legality

LegalCommanderNot legalStandardLegalModernNot legalPremodernLegalLegacyLegalVintageNot legalBrawlNot legalPioneer
LegalOathbreaker
Not legalPauperNot legalHistoric
Not legalTimeless

Rulings

Dec 1, 2004

If Engineered Explosives had no charge counters on it when you sacrificed it, it won’t destroy an animated land, because that permanent is a land in addition to being a creature.

Dec 7, 2018

Colorless mana won’t give Engineered Explosives another charge counter. Colorless is not a color.

Dec 7, 2018

A token has a converted mana cost of 0 unless it is copying something else.

Dec 7, 2018

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.