MTG · Card

◇ Catalog #3

Shrapnel Blast

DIGITAL ONLY

ea3·#3·uncommon·nonfoil

Illus. Hideaki Takamura

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wishlisted

Jul '23

3 yr ago

Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #17,639 · Fringe play

Variants

Nonfoil

Gameplay

Instant

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact. Shrapnel Blast deals 5 damage to any target.

Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennylegal

PreDH

Rulings · 2

2014-07-18wotc

Players can only respond once this spell has been cast and all its costs have been paid. No one can try to destroy the artifact you sacrificed to prevent you from casting this spell.

2014-07-18wotc

You must sacrifice exactly one artifact to cast this spell; you can’t cast it without sacrificing an artifact, and you can’t sacrifice additional artifacts.

Context

This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from EA3 — the lineup includes Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #3 of *Explorer Anthology 3*, the set that shipped alongside the July 2023 Explorer Anthology 3 release.

Card type: Instant, color identity red, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {1}{R} (2 converted).

Legal across the major constructed formats — Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander — plus Standard rotation play.

EDHrec ranks this card #17,639 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Hideaki Takamura. Rarix catalogs 94 other cards credited to this artist.