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Engineered Explosives
Card Information
Type: Artifact
Mana Cost: X
CMC: 0
Part of the Reserved List: No
Set: Double Masters (2XM)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 252
Oracle Text
Sunburst (This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.) {2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this artifact.
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- August 7, 2020
If a permanent has {X} in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.
Source: wotc - August 7, 2020
Colorless mana won't give Engineered Explosives another charge counter. Colorless is not a color.
Source: wotc - August 7, 2020
You can choose any value for X as you cast Engineered Explosives. The value chosen for X doesn't directly affect the number of charge counters Engineered Explosives enters the battlefield with, but it does let you pay more mana and thus spend more colors of mana to cast it.
Source: wotc - August 7, 2020
Tokens that aren't a copy of something else don't have a mana cost. Anything without a mana cost normally has a mana value of 0.
Source: wotc
Price History
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