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Erratic Explosion

Sorcery2 generic manaRed mana

Damage that scales with whatever your library coughs up first is a gamble most decks would never accept, which is exactly why this one came wrapped in a deckbuilding contract: arrange your nonland count so the first hit is reliably enormous, and the variance collapses into a number you can plan around. The structural pivot is the clause that keeps revealing until it finds a nonland, which means every land in the deck is skipped before the damage is set. The build that fires this consistently runs a library that is mostly lands with a tiny core of giant spells, or leans on draw manipulation to guarantee the reveal; a deck packed with cheap nonland cards does the opposite, burying the payoff under a pile of two- and three-drops. Pair it with the bloated mana values of Eldrazi titans or a Worldspine Wurm and a single cast can erase a player at a cost that has nothing to do with the damage dealt. The "Choose any target" wording is broader than burn usually allows, letting the sum land on a creature, a planeswalker, or a face as the math dictates. And because the revealed cards return to the bottom rather than being spent, the deck loses nothing it needs to keep. This is less a removal spell than the trigger on a custom-built cannon: inert without the right ammunition, lethal once the library is loaded to fire.

Erratic Explosion (plst)
PLST · #PCA-41common
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Normal: $0.19
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Choose any target. Reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card. Erratic Explosion deals damage equal to that card's mana value to that permanent or player. Put the revealed cards on the bottom of your library in any order.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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