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Peak Eruption

Sorcery2 generic manaRed mana

Land destruction with a target it cannot count on: the card answers Mountains, and only Mountains, which means its ceiling is dictated entirely by what your opponent chose to put in their deck. Against an opponent leaning on basic Mountains it strips a land and burns the controller for three, a tempo-positive one-for-one that trades a card for a land plus a meaningful chunk of reach. But the word "Mountain" is a subtype, not a synonym for "basic," so it reaches further than it looks: shocklands, the original dual lands, and triomes all carry the Mountain type and are fair game. The genuine dead draws are against decks that simply never field a Mountain at all, and that conditionality is the whole bargain. Targeted land destruction has always been priced on the assumption that it cannot reliably hit what you want, and this design pushes the principle to its narrowest point: same three-mana cost as a no-strings Stone Rain, but restricted to a single land type, so the rider has to earn the difference. The three damage is the tell that the base effect was too narrow to ship alone, a reach-and-tempo bolt-on that gives the card a reason to exist even when the land it destroys is unremarkable. It sits among red's color-hosers, cards built to punish a specific opposing manabase rather than to function in a vacuum, with all the variance that implies.

Peak Eruption (ths)
THS · #132uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.08
Foil: $0.20
Oracle Text

Rules text

Destroy target Mountain. Peak Eruption deals 3 damage to that land's controller.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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