Searing Blaze

Instant

Searing Blaze deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker and 1 damage to target creature that player or that planeswalker’s controller controls.

Landfall — If you had a land enter the battlefield under your control this turn, Searing Blaze deals 3 damage to that player or planeswalker and 3 damage to that creature instead.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pauper	Legal
Pauper Duel Commander	Legal
Pauper EDH	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (48)

RockIV on mono red burn needs help

9 months ago

there has been some changes on the deck :

added :

Hellspark Elemental x 4 - maybe Keldon Marauders will be better ?

Searing Blood x 4 - not shure about these one , are there better alternatives or its ok ?

Flame Rift x 4 - as replacement of Eidolon of the Great Revel

Shard Volley x 2 - i only add two because it cost lands , and i dont have a lot of them

Skullcrack ended up in sideboard , i always feel that its not that good if your opponent dont gain life.

so, with these changes i have some new questions

is Hellspark Elemental a good card for these deck ? or Keldon Marauders or Vexing Devil would be better. I also was thnking in adding maybe 1 or 2 Grim Lavamancer-

is Searing Blood ok, or are there better cards that i dont know ? i know about Searing Blaze but decided for blood, because i will need to wait for lands for the other one.

Shard Volley i decided for only 2 of them, im shure 4 of them would be to savage for my lands.

Browbeat didnt enter the main

what do you guys think about these changes

ty for the help

Mousemke on Bombardier Gold

11 months ago

dunno if you will try to port this type of thing to modern, but for comparison, here are some comparative upgrades you could make

-Disfigure => Dismember (not a clean swap, may depend on your usage)

-Lightning Strike => Lightning Bolt

-Play with Fire => more Lightning Bolt?

-Searing Blaze?(how important is the scry)

-Morbid Opportunist => Grim Haruspex

-Seize the Storm => hard to replace 1:1, but it's expensive. maybe Dreadhorde Arcanist or Magmatic Channeler

also lands. i wont dive that deep here but ofc the land base standard => modern are quite different

nbarry223 on In defense of Veil of …

1 year ago

I would actually argue that powerful but niche cards like Veil of Summer and Aether Gust is something the format needs more of. They aren't strictly better than other counterparts, but give some "narrow" hate that can be quite powerful in the right matches. We need more hate-cards in the format which are relevant in this manner. Wedge hate cards like this are great, and it's a shame that they aren't all at the same power level.

Cards like Devout Decree, Celestial Purge, Noxious Grasp, Deathmark, Fry, and Rending Volley just aren't powerful enough. White does get some decent creatures that fit the mold like Auriok Champion and Sanctifier en-Vec but those require a little more than a slight splash.

So in conclusion, rather than argue that Veil of Summer (a fixed Autumn's Veil) is too powerful, I would argue that the counterparts from other colors are just too weak, being outclassed by normal removal options.

We need more narrow cards that fit into what the color wants to do, and hate against what its enemy colors want to do better. For example, maybe some kind of Searing Blaze type of effect (deals with creatures and goes face) for {R} against {WU}, and a {B} effect against {GW} that punishes them for swarming and is a form of removal.

wallisface on Boros Modern Soldier

1 year ago

I have the following suggestions:

• add in 4x Lightning Bolt, 4x Lightning Helix, 4x Monastery Swiftspear, 4x Searing Blaze. The burn spells will help clear a path for your attackers, and/or hit directly to-face to close a game out. Swiftspear is one of the stronger creatures you could be playing, so should be in here.

To make room for those 16 cards, I’d suggest removing the following:

• 2x Solar Blaze. You don’t need a janky board wipe, and generally you want your curve low. Dropping these’ll mean you can run less lands

• 2x Land. You should only need 22 at this point

• 1x Feather, the Redeemed. You have almost nothing that can even target it, making it fairly useless

• 3x Legion's Initiative. You don’t want to waste a turn with this - you need to be spending every turn either presenting threats, or removing your opponents.

• 2x Boros Signet. Same as above. I see no need for this.

• 2x Boros Swiftblade. These guys are fine, but Monastery Swiftspear is better.

• 2x Justice Strike. I think keeping 2 could be good for big problem creatures, but running 4 is overkill - generic burn spells should be able to deal with most things.

• 2x Response / Resurgence. Its just too situational a card to be useful

zapyourtumor on Rakdos Scourge Burn

2 years ago

Omniscience_is_life Searing Blaze actually "turns on" on turn 2, since it counts a land played before it was cast. The main advantage it has over other burn to face cards is because it's a 2 in 1, and burn decks care a lot abt cards.

On another note, have you considered maybe dropping 2 Flame Rift (its cute but you have a lot of self damaging lands and eidolon, so idk) and then move the 2 Searing Blood mainboard? It does almost as much damage to the player and also removes something. It would also make it a bit easier to achieve delirium I think, since you balance the number instants and sorceries.

Omniscience_is_life on Rakdos Scourge Burn

2 years ago

If Lurrus is your companion, you can designate her(?) as such by putting

*CMPN*

next to her in the editing bay.

Past that, I'm wondering how good Searing Blaze is--seems like pretty bad on both the removal and faceburn fronts, especially since it only "turns on" on T3. Maybe a Fruit of Tizerus instead? Also, a Spikefield Hazard  ^Flip might do you good in place of a Mountain, especially if you lower your curve by removing Blaze.

Gattison on Killing Lands to go smack

2 years ago

Random suggestions: Rogue Elephant can put a land in the yard. Grapple with the Past could help fill the yard and at the same time retrieve creatures you want/need. Just in case lightning bolt isn't enough there's also Ground Assault and Searing Blaze. Also Groundswell could be cool.

Fuzzy003 on Don't tell me to get Eidolon

2 years ago

I'd add Terramorphic Expanse or Evolving Wilds just to get landfall on your opponent's turn with Searing Blaze.