Calibrated Blast
- Mana cost
- {2}{R}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Modern Horizons 2 #405 (rare)
- Price
- $0.28 USD
Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card. Put the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in a random order. When you reveal a nonland card this way, Calibrated Blast deals damage equal to that card's mana value to any target.
Flashback {3}{R}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Calibrated Blast has 5 printings, first in Modern Horizons 2 (2021). EDHREC ranks it #20,417 among Commander cards. It appears most in Hidetsugu, Devouring Chaos decks (165 on EDHREC). It has 7 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Calibrated Blast most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Hidetsugu, Devouring Chaos: 165 decks
- Gau, Feral Youth: 39 decks
- Smaug, the Great Calamity // Spew Flame: 1 decks
Often played with Calibrated Blast
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Calibrated Blast goes on the stack without a target. When you reveal a nonland card during its resolution, its reflexive triggered ability triggers and you pick a target to be dealt damage. You'll know the mana value of the revealed nonland card and how much damage will be dealt.
- : You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card's type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.
- : A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
- : “Flashback [cost]” means “You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost” and “If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack.”
- : To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
- : The nonland card revealed this way ends up on the bottom of the library with the other cards.
- : You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.