Fireball
Fifth Edition 227 • common
- Set
- Fifth Edition
- Collector number
- 227
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- X mana red mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Red
- Artist
- Mark Tedin
- Market price
- $0.25
What it does
This spell costs 1 generic mana more to cast for each target beyond the first.
Fireball deals X damage divided evenly, rounded down, among any number of targets.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Fireball has been a foundational element of the Magic: The Gathering card game since its original release in 1993, representing the quintessential direct-damage spell. By the time of the Fifth Edition printing in 1997, the card had become a hallmark of red-aligned deck strategies, celebrated for its scalability and its ability to turn excess mana into a precise finishing blow against an opponent or their creatures.
The artwork for this particular iteration of Fireball maintains the classic, aggressive aesthetic established by early contributors to the game. It was designed to visually capture the raw, elemental volatility of pyromancy. During the Fifth Edition era, which served as a massive consolidation of the game's core rules and card pool, Fireball remained a constant, favored by players for its straightforward utility and its role as a teachable moment for new players regarding the game's resource management system.
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