Crackle with Power

Sorcery

Crackle with Power deals five times X damage to each of up to X targets (creatures, players, planeswalkers and/or battles) .

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	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
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (45)

Rhadamanthus on Copying Crackle With Power

8 hours ago

You can only choose 2 targets. An effect that allows you to choose new targets for a spell/ability or a copy of a spell/ability allows you to change (or leave alone) the targets that were already chosen. If only two targets were chosen for the original Crackle with Power in your example then there's no third target to do anything with.

115.7. Some effects allow a player to change the target(s) of a spell or ability, and other effects allow a player to choose new targets for a spell or ability.
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115.7d If an effect allows a player to “choose new targets” for a spell or ability, the player may leave any number of the targets unchanged, even if those targets would be illegal. If the player chooses to change some or all of the targets, the new targets must be legal and must not cause any unchanged targets to become illegal.
115.7e When changing targets or choosing new targets for a spell or ability, only the final set of targets is evaluated to determine whether the change is legal.

The reason you can't choose only one target is because a target of a spell can only be chosen multiple times as a target if there are multiple instances of the word "target" in the spell's rules text.

115.3. The same target can’t be chosen multiple times for any one instance of the word “target” on a spell or ability. If the spell or ability uses the word “target” in multiple places, the same object or player can be chosen once for each instance of the word “target” (as long as it fits the targeting criteria). This rule applies both when choosing targets for a spell or ability and when changing targets or choosing new targets for a spell or ability (see rule 115.7).

Polaris on Copying Crackle With Power

1 day ago

Reverberate allows you to choose new targets, so you would be able to choose up to 3 targets as that's how many Crackle with Power 3 can have.

builderboy7 on Copying Crackle With Power

1 day ago

If my opponent casts a Crackle with Power with {X} = {3} and selects 2 target players, if I then copy Crackle with Power with Reverberate, would I only be able to choose only 2 targets or could I pick 3 targets?

Azoth2099 on The Price of Power | Rowan EDH

1 year ago

SithDragon33

Hey man, just a heads up - Bond of Agony doesn't quite work here. For example let's say you pay 20 life with Blood Celebrant, activate Rowan, Scion of War's ability and cast Bond of Agony where X = 20. You'll still have to pay another 20 life as an additional cost. Not very good at all.

Also, have you considered Plunge into Darkness or Spoils of the Vault here? With cards like Torment of Hailfire & Crackle with Power in the mix, they're 1-card wincons here. Vampiric Tutor, Grim Tutor & Cruel Tutor also have some serious added benefit with this one.

wallisface on Can this Rowan crackle?

1 year ago

No, Rowan, Scion of War is reducing each individual spells cost by an amount of colourless mana - the X in the spells you then cast are irrelevant towards calculating that reduction.

For example, if you lose 3 life in a turn, and then tap Rowan, Scion of War for its ability, your black and/or red spells will now all cost {3} less to cast. In the case of Crackle with Power that would mean you could pay {R}{R} and have X=1. Or pay {R}{R}{R}{R}{R} and have X=2.

As an additional note, pinging yourself with Necropotence definitely doesn't do what you think it does - though I'm not entirely sure how you think it works. The ability of Necropotence to pay 1 life is entirely irrelevant to whether you take damage from other sources. So if you target yourself with Crackle with Power, Necropotence doesn't do anything (as you're not paying its ability cost, you're just burning yourself for no reason)

Quickspell on Can this Rowan crackle?

1 year ago

Does Rowan, Scion of War count for each of the three {X} in Crackle with Power? Can I ping myself with Necropotence and kill the table with the other two?

AcidicArisato on Pew Pew

1 year ago

I'd recommend cutting: - Hard Evidence - Hordeling Outburst - Stolen by the Fae - Octavia, Living Thesis - Niv-Mizzet, Parun - Izzet Chronarch - Izzet Chemister - Spellburst - Occult Epiphany - Prismatic Lens - Rogue's Passage

I'd recommend: - Mind Stone (This would probably be more flexible than Prismatic Lens) - Lorien Revealed - Mystic Sanctuary - Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance - Skittering Invasion - Underworld Breach - Transcendent Message - Archmage Emeritus - Loyal Apprentice - Baral, Chief of Compliance (Potentially just doing a straight swap of this with Goblin Electromancer} - Storm-Kiln Artist - March of Swirling Mist - Crackle with Power (AWESOME win-con) - Apex of Power - Surge to Victory (This is hilarious) - Rise from the Tides - Mnemonic Deluge - Wayfarer's Bauble

ThassaUpYo@ssa on Anyway I Started Blasting

1 year ago

Bluelian! I've got some additional cards that I think we should consider and potentially work into your list to provide you with more wincons and card draw:

Solphim, Mayhem Dominus, Jin-Gitaxias  ^Flip, Electrostatic Field, Docent of Perfection  ^Flip, Counterspell, Mana Drain, Fierce Guardianship, Deflecting Swat, Blue Sun's Zenith, Electrodominance, Lightning Bolt, Increasing Vengeance, Rapid Hybridization, Force of Will, Valakut Awakening  ^Flip, Sublime Epiphany, Jeska's Will, Finale of Revelation, Crackle with Power, Banefire, Finale of Promise, Red Sun's Zenith, Seething Song, Mindsplice Apparatus, Primal Amulet  ^Flip, The Magic Mirror, Twinning Staff, Thousand-Year Storm, Double Vision, City on Fire, Ral, Storm Conduit, Riptide Laboratory, Temple of Epiphany, Cascade Bluffs, Stormcarved Coast, Scalding Tarn, Fiery Islet, Spirebluff Canal, Training Center, Reflecting Pool, and Plaza of Heroes