Exploding Borders

The back half of this spell is a number, and that number is your manabase. The tutor always fetches exactly one basic, no more, but it resolves first, so the basic land type it brings counts toward the burn's X: the spell partly scales itself in the moment you cast it. That single resolved tutor is the only ramp on offer; everything else feeding the damage is work you did before this card hit the stack. In a two-color deck it grabs a land and points two or three damage at a face, a rate nobody empties their hand for. The payoff lives where the manabase carries land types from multiple basic sources: shocklands, triomes, fetchable duals, and any land that prints two or more basic types on its line. There, the same spell that smooths your draw also throws a sizable burst at a single player or planeswalker. Domain counts those types rather than consuming them, so a Domain deck is really hoarding land-type coverage and then cashing it in here without giving any of it up. The burn never touches the board, only a face or a walker, which makes this a reach card for a deck that has already assembled five colors' worth of land types and wants to convert that assembly into damage. The ramp is flat; the damage is the variable, and the deck around it sets the dial.