Hydroblast
Fifth Edition 94 • uncommon
- Set
- Fifth Edition
- Collector number
- 94
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- blue mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Kaja Foglio
- Market price
- $5.34
What it does
Choose one —
• Counter target spell if it's red.
• Destroy target permanent if it's red.
"Heed the lessons of our time: the forms of water may move the land itself and hold captive the fires within."— Gustha Ebbasdotter, Kjeldoran royal mage
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Hydroblast was first introduced in the Ice Age expansion of Magic: The Gathering in 1995, designed to provide blue players with a specialized tool for interacting with red spells. The card serves as a color-shifted mirror to the card Pyroblast, reflecting the game's early design philosophy of creating distinct, adversarial relationships between opposing colors. As a common card, it became a staple of early competitive play for its efficiency in handling the aggressive red threats prevalent in the meta at the time.
The card was included in the Fifth Edition core set, which utilized the illustration originally created by artist Dan Frazier. Frazier’s work for the early years of the game is characterized by a stark, painterly style that helped define the visual identity of Magic during its formative era. The design was intended to be both functional and flavor-rich, visually conveying the elemental clash between water and fire through the lens of early fantasy aesthetics, and it has remained a recognized piece of the game's foundational card pool.
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