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Explosion of Riches

Sorcery5 generic manaRed mana

Group draw effects usually trade symmetry for goodwill: everyone refills, and the caster hopes to convert the fresh cards fastest. This one keeps the symmetry but welds a punishment onto every draw, and the punishment is aimed by dice, not by choice. You draw, then each opponent decides whether the extra card is worth eating a coin flip's worth of five damage. The randomized targeting is where the design gets interesting: you cannot steer the burn at whichever player is actually threatening you, so it functions as a table-wide tax with no way to point the barrel. Every card drawn (yours included, plus every opponent who opts in) fires another five points at a randomly chosen opponent, which means a full table of yes-votes can rain twenty or more damage across the pod in a single resolution, distributed by chance. Generosity and hostility come stapled together here: the more value you hand out, the more damage you spray, but you never get to say where it lands. It asks a caster who has already done the arithmetic on how much life the table can afford to lose and is willing to gamble that the randomness breaks their way. That gamble, not the card advantage, is the reason to sleeve it.

Explosion of Riches (cmr)
CMR · #176uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.16
Foil: $0.28
Oracle Text

Rules text

Draw a card, then each other player may draw a card. Whenever a card is drawn this way, Explosion of Riches deals 5 damage to target opponent chosen at random from among your opponents.
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
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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