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◇ Catalog #92

Banefire

NON-TRADEABLE

ps11·#92·rare·nonfoil·ES

Illus. Raymond Swanland

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Jan '11

15 yr ago

Value

No third-party market for this printing. Some promo runs (Salvat, McDonald's, Trainer Kits) do clear at private sales — record your own observation to anchor a price for this card.

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Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #3,932 · Niche pick

Variants

Nonfoil

Gameplay

Sorcery

Banefire deals X damage to any target. If X is 5 or more, this spell can't be countered and the damage can't be prevented.

Legalities

tlrlegal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennylegal

PreDH

Rulings · 3

2018-07-13wotc

To determine whether it can be countered and its damage can be prevented, Banefire checks the number you chose for X, not the amount of mana you actually spent or the amount of damage it will actually deal.

2018-07-13wotc

If its target is illegal by the time Banefire tries to resolve, the spell isn’t countered, but it doesn’t resolve. The target won’t be dealt damage.

2018-07-13wotc

Banefire can be targeted by spells that try to counter it regardless of what the value of X is. If X is 5 or more, those spells will still resolve, but the part of their effect that would counter Banefire won’t do anything. Any other effects those spells have will work as normal.

Context

This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from PS11 — 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 #92 of *Salvat 2011*, the set that shipped alongside the January 2011 Salvat 2011 release.

Card type: Sorcery, color identity red, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {X}{R} (1 converted).

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

EDHrec ranks this card #3,932 in Commander, putting it in the niche-pick tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Raymond Swanland. Rarix catalogs 886 other cards credited to this artist.