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Magic: The Gathering · Guilds of Ravnica Promos · Rare

Expansion

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$0.53

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$0.79

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Rules Text

Front · Expansion
Copy target instant or sorcery spell with mana value 4 or less. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Back · Explosion
Explosion deals X damage to any target. Target player draws X cards.

Card Facts

Mana value
6
Colors
Color identity
EDHREC rank
#3,924
Rarity
Rare

Legality

Brawl

Legal

Commander

Legal

Competitive Brawl

Legal

Duel Commander

Legal

Gladiator

Legal

Historic

Legal

Legacy

Legal

Modern

Legal

Oathbreaker

Legal

Penny Dreadful

Legal

Pioneer

Legal

Timeless

Legal

Vintage

Legal

Alchemy

Not legal

Future

Not legal

Old School

Not legal

Pauper

Not legal

Pauper Commander

Not legal

PreDH

Not legal

Premodern

Not legal

Standard

Not legal

Standard Brawl

Not legal

TLR

Not legal

Rulings

  1. Jan 12, 2024 · Wizards of the Coast

    If one of Explosion's two targets becomes illegal, the other is affected as appropriate.

  2. Jan 12, 2024 · Wizards of the Coast

    The copy will have the same targets as the spell it's copying unless you choose new ones. You may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. If, for one of the targets, you can't choose a new legal target, then it remains unchanged (even if the current target is illegal).

  3. Jan 12, 2024 · Wizards of the Coast

    If the spell that's copied is modal (that is, it says "Choose one —" or the like), the copy will have the same mode or modes. You can't choose different ones.

  4. Jan 12, 2024 · Wizards of the Coast

    If the spell that's copied has an X whose value was determined as it was cast (like Banefire does), the copy will have the same value of X.

  5. Jan 12, 2024 · Wizards of the Coast

    If the spell has damage divided as it was cast, the division can't be changed (although the targets receiving that damage still can). The same is true of spells that distribute counters.

  6. Jan 12, 2024 · Wizards of the Coast

    The controller of a copy can't choose to pay any alternative or additional costs for the copy. However, effects based on any alternative or additional costs that were paid for the original spell are copied as though those same costs were paid for the copy.

  7. Jan 12, 2024 · Wizards of the Coast

    Any choices made as a spell resolves won't have been made yet once it's copied. Any such choices will be made separately as the copy resolves.

  8. Jan 12, 2024 · Wizards of the Coast

    If you copy a spell, you control the copy. It will resolve before the original spell does.

  9. Jan 12, 2024 · Wizards of the Coast

    Expansion can copy any instant or sorcery spell with an appropriate mana value, not just one with targets.

  10. Jan 12, 2024 · Wizards of the Coast

    If a spell has {X} in its mana cost, include the value chosen for that X when determining the mana value of that spell.

  11. Jan 12, 2024 · Wizards of the Coast

    The copy is created on the stack, so it's not "cast." Abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell won't trigger.

  12. Dec 8, 2022 · Wizards of the Coast

    Split cards have two card faces on a single card. The characteristics of the half you didn't cast are ignored while the spell is on the stack.

  13. Dec 8, 2022 · Wizards of the Coast

    Each split card is a single card. For example, if you discard a split card, you've discarded one card, not two. If an effect counts the number of sorcery cards in your graveyard, Assault // Battery counts once, not twice.

  14. Dec 8, 2022 · Wizards of the Coast

    Each split card has two names. If an effect instructs you to choose a card name, you may choose one of those names, but not both.

  15. Dec 8, 2022 · Wizards of the Coast

    A split card's characteristics are a combination of its two halves while it is not on the stack. For example, Assault // Battery has a mana value of 5 while it is in your library. If an effect allows you to search your library for a card with mana value 4 or less, you can't find Assault // Battery.

  16. Dec 8, 2022 · Wizards of the Coast

    If an effect allows you to cast a spell with certain characteristics, consider only the characteristics of the half you're casting. For example, if an effect allows you to cast a sorcery spell with mana value 2 or less from among cards in your graveyard, you could cast Assault this way, but not Battery.

  17. Dec 8, 2022 · Wizards of the Coast

    If you copy a spell that's half of a split card, the copy copies that same half. For example, if you copy Assault, the copy is also Assault, not Battery.

  18. Dec 8, 2022 · Wizards of the Coast

    To cast a split card, choose one of its halves to cast. There's no way to cast both halves of this split card.

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Community

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