Printings
Crackling Doom
Card Information
Type: Instant
Mana Cost: 
CMC: 3
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Double Masters 2022 (2X2)
Rarity: Uncommon
Collector Number: 196
Oracle Text
Crackling Doom deals 2 damage to each opponent. Each opponent sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- September 20, 2014
Crackling Doom doesn't target any player or creature. For example, a creature with protection from black could be sacrificed.
Source: wotc - September 20, 2014
If a player controls two or more creatures tied for the greatest power among creatures they control, that player chooses one of them to sacrifice.
Source: wotc - September 20, 2014
In a multiplayer game, each opponent, starting with the active player and proceeding in turn order, chooses which creature they will sacrifice and then all creatures are sacrificed at the same time. Each successive player will know what the players before them chose to sacrifice.
Source: wotc - September 20, 2014
The sacrifice is not dependent on the damage being dealt. It doesn't matter if that damage is prevented or redirected.
Source: wotc
Price History
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