Engineered Explosives
- Mana cost
- {X}
- Type
- Artifact
- Set
- Kaladesh Inventions #36 (special)
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.
Engineered Explosives has 9 printings, first in Fifth Dawn (2004). EDHREC ranks it #12,830 among Commander cards. It appears most in Fblthp, Lost on the Range decks (511 on EDHREC). It has 4 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 Engineered Explosives most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Fblthp, Lost on the Range: 511 decks
- Glissa, the Traitor: 234 decks
- Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire: 131 decks
- Rograkh, Son of Rohgahh: 60 decks
- Thrasta, Tempest's Roar: 34 decks
- Hemmer, Fixing What Is Broken: 7 decks
- Miles O'Brien, Transporter Ops: 6 decks
- Layla Hassan: 4 decks
Often played with Engineered Explosives
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If a permanent has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
- : Colorless mana won't give Engineered Explosives another charge counter. Colorless is not a color.
- : 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.
- : 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.