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Engineered Explosives

Mana cost

Mana value0TypeArtifact Color identity

Colorless RarityRare SetStar Trek (TRK) ArtistDavid Álvarez Price€3.22 · foil €20.33 · $3.04

Engineered Explosives

Artifact

Sunburst (This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)

, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this artifact.

At the point of impact, a photon torpedo mixes matter and antimatter to powerful effect.

Sunburst

Legality

CommanderLegalStandardNot legalPioneerNot legalModernLegalLegacyLegalVintageLegalPauperNot legalBrawlNot legalOathbreakerLegalHistoricNot legalTimelessNot legalPenny DreadfulNot legal

Rulings

2020-08-07
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.

2020-08-07
Colorless mana won't give Engineered Explosives another charge counter. Colorless is not a color.

2020-08-07
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.

2020-08-07
If a permanent has in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.