Skip to content
Moxonomy

Flames of the Raze-Boar

Instant5 generic manaRed mana

The design bet here is legibility: give a red deck a big enough body on the board and this stops reading as an overcosted single-target burn spell and becomes a lopsided sweep. The four damage to a chosen creature is unconditional (enough to clear most midrange bodies, though not automatic against high toughness, indestructibility, or damage prevention), but the two-damage rider across the rest of that opponent's board fires only when you already field a beater the size of a hasty three-drop or a modest token swarm's anchor, a threshold an aggressive or midrange red deck clears almost by accident. That gate does all the balancing work: it turns an expensive removal spell into a payoff for having committed to the board, rewarding the deck that least needs the help while denying the effect to control shells that would otherwise abuse a wrath tucked into removal. Instant speed sharpens the reward. Because the check reads the battlefield on resolution, you can hold this up through a combat step, let a blocker trade or a token slip into play, and still turn the corner into a sweep at the exact moment the opponent overcommits. The result is a conditional board wipe stapled to a large single-target burn spell, with the condition written to be as easy as possible for the deck it was built for to satisfy.

Flames of the Raze-Boar (rna)
RNA · #101uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.06
Foil: $0.10
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flames of the Raze-Boar deals 4 damage to target creature an opponent controls. Then Flames of the Raze-Boar deals 2 damage to each other creature that player controls if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

1 set
Quick navigation
move selectesc close