Exploding Borders
Card Information
Type: Sorcery
Mana Cost: 2
CMC: 4
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Conflux (CON)
Rarity: Common
Collector Number: 106
Oracle Text
Domain — Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Exploding Borders deals X damage to target player or planeswalker, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control.
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- June 18, 2021
The basic land types are Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest. Land types other than basic land types (such as Desert) don't contribute to domain abilities.
Source: wotc - June 18, 2021
Domain abilities count the number of basic land types among lands you control, not how many lands you control or how many of any type.
Source: wotc - February 1, 2009
Exploding Borders will still deal damage even if you don't put a land card onto the battlefield.
Source: wotc - February 1, 2009
You do what the spell says in order, so you'll put a new basic land card onto the battlefield before you determine the value of X.
Source: wotc - February 1, 2009
Exploding Borders has only one target: the player. If that player becomes an illegal target by the time Exploding Borders would resolve, the entire spell doesn't resolve. You won't get to search for a basic land card.
Source: wotc
Price History
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