Engineered Explosives
Modern Masters 204 • rare
- Set
- Modern Masters
- Collector number
- 204
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- X mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Lars Grant-West
- Market price
- $6.88
What it does
Sunburst (This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)
2 generic mana, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this artifact.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Engineered Explosives was first introduced in the Fifth Dawn set for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game in 2004. Designed as a flexible, colorless artifact, it was intended to serve as a versatile utility card that could be played in any deck. The design reflects the game's shift toward rewarding players for understanding the converted mana cost of their opponents' permanents, allowing for a strategic response to tokens or low-cost aggressive threats.
The artwork for this specific Modern Masters printing was executed by Franz Vohwinkel. In this iteration, the illustration leans into the industrial, alchemical aesthetic of the game's setting, depicting a complex mechanical device ready to trigger. The Modern Masters release, which gathered high-demand cards from previous sets, helped solidify the card's status as a staple in competitive formats like Modern and Legacy due to its ability to scale against varied board states.
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