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Rolling Earthquake

SorceryX generic manaRed mana

Earthquake with its blind spot inverted. The classic red ground-sweeper hits every player and every creature on the ground but spares fliers; this rebuild keeps the player damage and the X-scaling but swaps the flying exemption for horsemanship, an evasion keyword almost nobody has. The practical effect is that flying creatures, which dodge a normal Earthquake entirely, now burn alongside everything else: only the rare horsemanship attacker walks away. That makes the card a cleaner board wipe than the original in almost any context, since the protected set is so much smaller than "everything with flying." In a deck actually fielding horsemanship creatures it becomes a one-sided reset and a reach-for-the-face finisher in the same cast, your attackers surviving while the opposing board and both life totals take the hit. The design is a tidy bit of localization: take a staple sweeper, retune the single exception clause to reward an evasion keyword tied to an early themed block, and the result reads as a callback rather than a fresh effect. The horsemanship clause is what gives the card its asymmetry, but even stripped of that synergy it does more work than Earthquake against most boards, because it answers fliers the original never could.

Rolling Earthquake (ptk)
PTK · #122rare
Pricing
Normal: $96.11
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Rolling Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without horsemanship and each player.
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
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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