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Searing Blaze
Card Information
Type: Instant
Mana Cost: 
CMC: 2
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Worldwake (WWK)
Rarity: Common
Collector Number: 90
Oracle Text
Searing Blaze deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker and 1 damage to target creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls. Landfall — If you had a land enter the battlefield under your control this turn, Searing Blaze deals 3 damage to that player or planeswalker and 3 damage to that creature instead.
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- November 8, 2024
Once the spell resolves, having a land enter under your control provides no further benefit.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2024
Having more than one land enter the battlefield under your control this turn provides no additional benefit.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2024
Whether you had a land enter the battlefield under your control this turn is checked as this spell resolves, not as you cast it.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2024
The landfall ability checks for an action that has happened in the past. It doesn't matter if a land that entered the battlefield under your control previously in the turn is still on the battlefield, is still under your control, or is still a land.
Source: wotc - November 8, 2024
The effect of this spell's landfall ability replaces its normal effect. If you had a land enter under your control this turn, only the landfall-based effect happens.
Source: wotc - March 1, 2010
If either target is illegal by the time Searing Blaze resolves, it still deals damage to the other target.
Source: wotc - March 1, 2010
You must choose two targets as you cast Searing Blaze: a player and a creature that player controls. If you can't (because there are no creatures on the battlefield, perhaps), then you can't cast the spell.
Source: wotc
Price History
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