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Dwarven Blastminer

Creature — Dwarf1 generic manaRed mana

Land destruction usually arrives as a one-shot spell; this builds it into a repeatable engine that punishes manabases full of duals, fetches, and utility lands while leaving basics untouched. That restriction is the whole hostility of the design: pointed at a deck leaning on nonbasics it can keep blowing up a land every few turns, but aimed at a basic-heavy mana base it does nothing. Morph is what makes the threat credible. Cast face down, it hides behind the same uniform 2/2 shell as any other morph in the deck, so the opponent has no way to read whether the card sitting there is a beater, a trick, or the engine that will start dismantling their lands one at a time. Flipping it for Red mana reveals the prison-warden role mid-game, often the turn after they tap out on a key nonbasic. The body is irrelevant once unmasked: a 1/1 whose only job is to carry the tap ability. What it represents is a piece of color-pie reasoning that has aged into rarity. Red's land destruction has narrowed steadily over the years, and a creature that strangles a greedy mana base over the course of a game, rather than slamming the door with a single Sinkhole-style hit, is a flavor of attrition the game has largely abandoned. It rewards a manabase metagame that no longer reliably exists, which is precisely what makes it worth understanding.

Dwarven Blastminer (plst)
PLST · #ONS-199uncommon
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Oracle Text

Rules text

2 generic manaRed mana, Tap: Destroy target nonbasic land. Morph Red mana (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for 3 generic mana. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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