Erratic Explosion
The List PCA-41 • common
- Set
- The List
- Collector number
- PCA-41
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 2 generic mana red mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Red
- Artist
- Gary Ruddell
- Market price
- $0.23
What it does
Choose any target. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card. Erratic Explosion deals damage equal to that card's mana value to that permanent or player. Put the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in any order.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Erratic Explosion first debuted in the Prophecy expansion for Magic: The Gathering in 2000, serving as a chaotic red sorcery that allowed players to deal damage based on the converted mana cost of the top card of their library. It was designed to capture the high-variance, high-reward nature of red magic, offering a gamble that could result in a significant blow to an opponent or a total whiff, depending on the random element of the deck's composition.
The version featured in The List is a curated reprint that introduces modern card frame aesthetics to classic gameplay mechanics. By including these cards in The List, the designers aimed to provide players with access to older, niche, or flavorful cards that might otherwise be difficult to track down, maintaining a connection between the game's evolving mechanical history and its current competitive environment.
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