Engineered Explosives
Mystery Booster 2 218 • rare
- Set
- Mystery Booster 2
- Collector number
- 218
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- X mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Ron Spears
- Market price
- $4.01
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 originally printed in the Fifth Dawn set for Magic: The Gathering in 2004, designed as a versatile artifact to punish opponents playing cards with identical mana costs. It quickly became a staple in eternal formats like Legacy and Modern for its ability to clear low-cost threats or token swarms, reflecting the design team's goal of creating a flexible, high-utility tool for competitive deck-building.
The version appearing in Mystery Booster 2 features the classic art by Martina Pilcerova, who rendered the card as a complex, glowing mechanical device. This reprint maintains the original functionality that made it a powerhouse, serving as a nostalgic nod to the intricate artifact-heavy themes of the Mirrodin block while remaining a functional piece in contemporary gameplay environments.
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