Explosive Apparatus

Artifact

{3}, {T}, Sacrifice Explosive Apparatus: Explosive Apparatus deals 2 damage to target creature, player or planeswalker.

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
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (31)

Ziusdra on Card creation challenge

1 year ago

There Are Rats in the Cellar {G}{B}

Sorcery

Target opponent creates two black 1/1 rat creature tokens. Then, choose one:

Extermination Quest - Venture into the dungeon. Up to two creatures you control fight up to two creatures you do not control. Create a treasure token.

Set Traps - Create a food token, then search your library for cards named Springjaw Trap, Explosive Apparatus, and/or Trip Noose, put them onto the battlefield, and shuffle.

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Frequent trope in D&D... I may have gone overboard with the text to try to make it too accurate. But the payoff might be big enough to be playable... the second mode makes it useful for golgari artifact synergy decks, and the first mode is great for removal, ramp, and venture. The real downside about the second mode is, of course, including those cards in your deck.

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Trainyaj on

4 years ago

You should build a full sideboard of 1-off artifacts if you plan to use Karn, the Great Creator and you should sub out some shocks and swamps to play 4 Interplanar Beacon as the only black you run are planeswalkers. A list of sideboard artifacts are as follows Arcane Encyclopedia – card draw for control, Explosive Apparatus – Bad removal, Navigator's Compass – life gain, Damping Sphere – Anti Izzet phoenix, Fountain of Renewal – Burn, Sorcerous Spyglass – Walkers, Helm of the Host – maybe ok? Magistrate's Scepter – control beater, Meteor Golem – good but expensive removal, Orazca Relic – versatile, Sentinel Totem – graveyard hate, Silent Gravestone – graveyard hate, Skyscanner – replaceable blocker, The Immortal Sun – win-con, Transmogrifying Wand – repeatable removal, Treasure Map  ^Flip card advantage. Please look at and comment my deck when you have time.

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No removal = win

Standard* Trainyaj

SCORE: 2 | 511 VIEWS

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Flooremoji on True Budget Mono Green Burn

5 years ago

Explosive Apparatus , I think we finally found you a home.

FSims81 on Dream deck - If you …

5 years ago

30,769 copies of Explosive Apparatus and see if I can drive the price up through scarcity.

w33m4n on Artifact Midrange V.2

5 years ago

FSims81 That is a very interesting Idea. I do like scriptures in here but there is a bit of a flaw. IF it comes out late game im only saving one piece of a critical balance of field objects. IE i'll get to keep a zahid or a sai but not both. So it can hurt me a little too also its a balance of 4 drops. I dont wanna stack too hard on the 4 drop range. Trying to find the right balance between scriptures and antiquities war vs vraska's. Also looking at trying out the 2 Explosive Apparatus as another cheap artifact option that could cause some late game extra damage

FSims81 on

5 years ago

After looking at your suggestions I'm thinking of removing the mill focused stuff Diligent Excavator, Millstone, Psychic Corrosion, the Fountain of Renewal and 2 Unwind. In their place I added 2 Blink of an Eye, 2 Explosive Apparatus, 2 Voltaic Servant, and 2 Artificer's Assistant.

My thought being the 2 Assistants are 1 to cast flyers I can pop turn one and Scry. Apparatus, and BoaE help control the board. Lastly Servant replaces Excavator as a 2 to cast 1/3 but I can untap and artifact which adds blockers.

JuiceD0171 on M19 Standard Artifacts Matter

5 years ago

My suggestions:

If you want to speed up the deck and potentially do something along the lines of Reckless Fireweaver, Cabal Paladin hits for two and does it on cast of historic spells which hits sagas and legendaries of which you have multiple in the deck.

Potentially less impactful than I would like it to be, but still a decent artifact for miscellaneous use: Explosive Apparatus can be used for shocking a creature, or for extra face damage. Also a 1 CMC artifact is nice when you know that The Antiquities War will go off next turn.

For reasons I don’t think I need to go into: Ornithopter.

I know it’s a fringe card but Metalwork Colossus can be nice if you can build a board state and pair it with itself and a Sai, Master Thopterist for an infinite sac/ETB combo, can be aided by Cabal Paladin.

Potentially pretty good as a beater and a way to turn those artifacts into food to beef up a win condition, Defiant Salvager can double as a sacrifice outlet for any artifact with a dies ability, like Servo Schematic.

FSims81 on Welcome to the Junkyard

5 years ago

Explosive Apparatus would also be a great card to swing 2 damage somewhere and pump Atog due to the trigger ability