Engineered Explosives

Name
Engineered Explosives

Mana Cost

Type
Artifact

Set
Star Trek

Rarity
Rare

Text

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.


Flavor Text

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


Number
#480

Other Prints
Double Masters
Fifth Dawn
Mystery Booster 2
Modern Masters
Kaladesh Inventions
Ultimate Box Topper
Ultimate Masters

Legal Formats
Commander | Duel | Future | Legacy | Modern | Oathbreaker | Vintage

Availability
Arena | Magic Online | Paper

Rulings

(07/08/2020)
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.


(07/08/2020)
Colorless mana won't give Engineered Explosives another charge counter. Colorless is not a color.


(07/08/2020)
If a permanent has in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.


(07/08/2020)
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.


Artist
David Álvarez

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