Engineered Explosives

Artifact

Sunburst (This enters with a charge counter for each colour of mana spent to cast this spell.)

{2}, Sacrifice this: Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost/mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (44)

zapyourtumor on Mono Blue Delver (Tempo)

1 week ago

Its nice to see old cards being played but sadly there is a lot of outdated tech here.

Consider is better than Opt with snaps

Not running at least 3 CS is probably trolling

Tamiyo, Inquisitive Student  ^Flip is an option, although it definitely slower than delver. So is murktide.

For a tempo deck, you want cheap and efficient interaction, which 3 cryptic notably is not. Probably need 1 mana counters like Spell Snare Spell Pierce Stern Scolding in some split between main and side. Scolding in particular is usually sideboard material however since monoblue has garbage removal its probably good to mainboard 1-2 copies.

Fading Hope is probably? better than snag although I have a soft spot for snag.

I recommend some Subtlety and more FoNs over shoal. And probably extra fons in the side too.

The only advantage of monoblue over izzet or dimir is that Harbinger of the Seas becomes better so I'd put at least 2 in the side. And running fetches for deck thinning is not worth the 1 life.

Probably want more utility lands like Sink into Stupor  ^Flip, Otawara, Soaring City, Castle Vantress. The mdfc lands also pitch to your pitch spells.

What exactly are you siding in Commandeer against? Same with redirect, clique and shackles. And you have zero grave hate in the sideboard. In monoblue you don't have many options, so something like Soul-Guide Lantern, Surgical Extraction, Grafdigger's Cage. the first two are probably better. Hurkyl's Recall is ok vs affinity. Dress Down is good against several decks right now. I have no idea what monoblue should run vs energy and similar decks, there may not be anything better than Engineered Explosives or Ratchet Bomb. Maybe titi is good enough if you can turbo flip it.

Overall a lot of suggestions but I think in general I'd go something like this for the maindeck:

-4 opt -3 cryptic -1 redirect -4 vapor snag -1 disrupting shoal -1 snapcaster mage

+4 consider +2 counterspell +2 fading hope +1 spell snare +2 stern scolding +1 spell pierce +1 force of negation +1 subtlety

-6 fetches

+1 otawara +2 sink into stupor +1 castle vantress +2 island

Valengeta on Lofty Lions

1 year ago

Oh yes I've been feeling that On Thin Ice is a bit redundant here because of the Paths and the adventure from Brazen Borrower. I didn't think about things like Engineered Explosives or Ratchet Bomb and they are surely a threat to be addressed. Pithing Needle not only handles those but many other troublesome cards too. I have a couple of copies on other decks and this one should definitely benefit from them. Thank you!

jdogz32 on Lofty Lions

1 year ago

Hey I took another look at your deck and I'm more looking at your sideboard. I'd advise taking out On Thin Ice as you already are running a playset of Path To Exiles and I'd add Pithing Needle instead. The main reason is your deck is extremely vulnerable to Engineered Explosives which a sideboarded Pithing Needle can easily stop. Hope this helps.

FormOverFunction on The GingerBant Man!

2 years ago

The various bombs (like Engineered Explosives) start off immediately not hitting your tokens, so those could be fun too. Who doesn’t like a good kitchen bomb. Do you know what they call a bomb in a French kitchen? Linoleum Blownapart. Sorry everybody.

Madhava on Mardu control

2 years ago

Also, very recommend an Engineered Explosives in Karn's toolbox. I've heard some say Karn's Sylex is better for Karn than EE. I'm on the fence as to this. Turnning off fetchlands is always funny, but it really comes down to how much you need your Chalices to stick around.

Andromedus on Anointed Peacekeeper + Aether Vial

2 years ago

My opponent casts a spell, putting it on the stack. In response, I flash in an Anointed Peacekeeper using Aether Vial, naming the spell he put on the stack.

Does this essentially work like a beefed up Mana Tithe?

Same question again, except with an ability. Let's say my opponent activates Engineered Explosives, putting its ability on the stack. Same as before I flash in an Anointed Peacekeeper using Aether Vial and naming the Engineered Explosives.

In both cases it's not clear to me what happens, whether the opponent has the option of tapping more mana (or even needs to), whether the EE sac effect goes through (even if the ability fizzles?) and so on.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Andromedus on Anointed Peacekeeper names Engineered Explosives

2 years ago

I want to make sure I understand how this interaction works.

I play an Anointed Peacekeeper and name Engineered Explosives.

After that, my opponent casts Engineered Explosives on their turn, intending to set the number of charge counters to 1.

Am I correct that in order to do this, he will need to tap only 2 total mana (to pay the Peacekeeper tax) being careful that those two mana are either the same color, or one of them is colorless? Meaning he can pay zero for Engineered Explosives' baseline cost as if he were casting it for 0, and then account for the 2 colorless, which then brings the charge counters up to one?

Or does he need to pay for the single charge counter with a mana, and then pay two additional mana? And if so does the color of the two additional mana matter?

Secondly, if I had two Anointed Peacekeepers both with Engineered Explosivess named, would he would need to have some combination of mono-color mana plus colorless adding up to 4 total in order to cast it with 1 charge counter? Or again, would he need to account for the initial 1 mana first, and then add the 4 "colorless" after that?

Gidgetimer on Minor Misstep

2 years ago

wallisface, Icbrgr: Sorry, I misunderstood the question. The question I answered was "can Prismatic Ending and Engineered Explosives blow up a chalice" not "can Minor Misstep counter Prismatic Ending or Engineered Explosives"