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Engineered Explosives 
Artifact
Engineered Explosives appeared in 806 MTGO Challenge Top-8 decks over the past 12 months, averaging 2.1 copies per deck. Its current TCGplayer price is $4.67.
Oracle Text
Sunburst (This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.)
, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this artifact.
, Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this artifact.Format Legality
ModernLegacyVintageDuel Commander
Competitive Play by Format
Top 8 decklists that played Engineered Explosives, by format.
| Format | Decks 30d | Avg 30d | Decks 12mo | Avg 12mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modern | 64 | 2.8 | 519 | 2.6 |
| Legacy | 14 | 1.3 | 275 | 1.3 |
| Vintage | 3 | 1 | 8 | 1 |
| Duel Commander | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
Details
- Set
- Mystery Booster 2
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 0
- Collector #
- 218
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Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Engineered Explosives
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (27)
- 2 Irencrag Feat
$0.72
0.02 tix - 3 Bala Ged Recovery
$5.78
0.03 tix - 4 Recross the Paths
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Reforge the Soul
$5.24
0.02 tix - 4 Turntimber Symbiosis
$4.43
0.99 tix - 4 Sea Gate Restoration
$37.68
5.46 tix - 1 Emeria's Call
$4.50
0.20 tix - 4 Strike It Rich
$3.40
0.02 tix
- 4 Shatterskull Smashing
$9.25
2.63 tix
Instants (25)
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (1)
5
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Instants (20)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (5)
Artifacts (13)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (21)
- 2 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$8.13 0.06 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 2 Spirebluff Canal$5.08 0.62 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.77 14.70 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
$0.28
0.02 tix - 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Prismatic Ending
$0.26
0.02 tix
- 1 Shadowspear
$18.49
0.61 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
$4.23
0.10 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix - 2 Wear/Tear
$1.29
4.72 tix
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Instants (4)
Enchantments (11)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
- 2 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.83 tix
- 2 Endurance
$3.97
4.00 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Ensnaring Bridge
$5.90
4.70 tix
- 1 Haywire Mite
$0.40
0.04 tix
- 1 Liquimetal Coating
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 1 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.78 tix
- 1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
$1.71
0.02 tix - 1 Sundering Titan
$0.78
0.02 tix - 1 The Stone Brain
$0.46
1.22 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
- 1 Zuran Orb
$2.49
0.03 tix
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (13)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (19)
- 4 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.81 0.02 tix
- 2 Blood Crypt$9.17 0.02 tix
- 4 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Castle Locthwain$3.66 0.33 tix
- 1 Graven Cairns$1.98 0.02 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 3 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix - 1 Flame Blitz
$0.10
0.03 tix
- 1 Hidetsugu Consumes All
$0.58
0.18 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 2 Necromentia
$0.30
0.02 tix
- 2 Ob Nixilis, the Adversary
$1.76
0.50 tix
- 1 Path of Peril
$0.31
0.27 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix - 2 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (5)
Artifacts (12)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (21)
- 2 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$8.13 0.06 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 2 Spirebluff Canal$5.08 0.62 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.77 14.70 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Invasive Surgery
$0.20
0.04 tix
- 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 2 Prismatic Ending
$0.26
0.02 tix
- 1 Shadowspear
$18.49
0.61 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
$4.23
0.10 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 2 Wear/Tear
$1.29
4.72 tix
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Sorceries (27)
- 2 Irencrag Feat
$0.72
0.02 tix
- 3 Bala Ged Recovery
$5.78
0.03 tix
- 4 Recross the Paths
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Reforge the Soul
$5.24
0.02 tix
- 4 Turntimber Symbiosis
$4.43
0.99 tix
- 4 Sea Gate Restoration
$37.68
5.46 tix
- 1 Emeria's Call
$4.50
0.20 tix
- 4 Strike It Rich
$3.40
0.02 tix
- 4 Shatterskull Smashing
$9.25
2.63 tix
Instants (25)
Artifacts (5)
5
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (23)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (13)
Lands (19)
- 4 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.81 0.02 tix
- 2 Blood Crypt$9.17 0.02 tix
- 4 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Castle Locthwain$3.66 0.33 tix
- 1 Graven Cairns$1.98 0.02 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 3 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Flame Blitz
$0.10
0.03 tix
- 1 Hidetsugu Consumes All
$0.58
0.18 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 2 Necromentia
$0.30
0.02 tix
- 2 Ob Nixilis, the Adversary
$1.76
0.50 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Tourach, Dread Cantor
$0.48
0.03 tix
- 2 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.12 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.83 tix
- 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Fury
$0.58
0.70 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Seasoned Pyromancer
$8.51
4.39 tix
- 1 Subtlety
$15.50
8.00 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
5
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (8)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (23)
- 2 Blood Crypt$9.17 0.02 tix
- 4 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Overgrown Tomb$9.30 0.02 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$6.90 0.02 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.77 14.70 tix
- 3 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
- 3 Wooded Foothills$17.82 2.48 tix
- 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground$9.95 0.09 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Alpine Moon
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 3 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Haywire Mite
$0.40
0.04 tix
- 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 1 Kolaghan's Command
$0.32
0.02 tix
- 2 Orvar, the All-Form
$2.30
0.30 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Terminate
$0.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (13)
Lands (19)
- 4 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.81 0.02 tix
- 2 Blood Crypt$9.17 0.02 tix
- 4 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Castle Locthwain$3.66 0.33 tix
- 1 Graven Cairns$1.98 0.02 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 3 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Flame Blitz
$0.10
0.03 tix
- 1 Hidetsugu Consumes All
$0.58
0.18 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 2 Necromentia
$0.30
0.02 tix
- 1 Path of Peril
$0.31
0.27 tix
- 1 Sudden Edict
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Tourach, Dread Cantor
$0.48
0.03 tix
- 2 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
1
Final: 1 |
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (5)
Artifacts (13)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (21)
- 2 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$8.13 0.06 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 2 Spirebluff Canal$5.08 0.62 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.77 14.70 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Prismatic Ending
$0.26
0.02 tix
- 1 Shadowspear
$18.49
0.61 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
$4.23
0.10 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 2 Wear/Tear
$1.29
4.72 tix
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Instants (21)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
8
Final: 8 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (4)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (23)
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.22 0.02 tix
- 2 Cavern of Souls$50.49 0.53 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$8.13 0.06 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Raugrin Triome$16.36 0.14 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$6.90 0.02 tix
- 1 Temple Garden$7.37 0.02 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.97
4.00 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Foundation Breaker
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 2 Hallowed Moonlight
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 1 Kaheera, the Orphanguard
$0.84
0.02 tix - 1 Orvar, the All-Form
$2.30
0.30 tix
- 3 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
1
Final: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (5)
Artifacts (13)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (21)
- 2 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$8.13 0.06 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 2 Spirebluff Canal$5.08 0.62 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.77 14.70 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Prismatic Ending
$0.26
0.02 tix
- 1 Shadowspear
$18.49
0.61 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 1 Teferi, Time Raveler
$4.23
0.10 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 2 Wear/Tear
$1.29
4.72 tix
4
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (19)
- 1 Fiery Islet$4.08 7.28 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 4 Spirebluff Canal$5.08 0.62 tix
- 3 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
Sideboard
2
Final: 2 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Instants (20)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
- 1 Fiery Islet$4.08 7.28 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 3 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 4 Spirebluff Canal$5.08 0.62 tix
- 3 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 2 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.12 tix
- 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Fury
$0.58
0.70 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Subtlety
$15.50
8.00 tix
- 2 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
4
Final: 4 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
- 1 Fiery Islet$4.08 7.28 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 3 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 tix
- 4 Spirebluff Canal$5.08 0.62 tix
- 3 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.12 tix
- 1 Brotherhood's End
$1.08
2.00 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Fury
$0.58
0.70 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Seasoned Pyromancer
$8.51
4.39 tix
- 1 Subtlety
$15.50
8.00 tix
- 1 Subtlety
$15.50
8.00 tix
- 2 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
5
Final: 5 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (12)
Lands (19)
- 4 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.81 0.02 tix
- 3 Blood Crypt$9.17 0.02 tix
- 2 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.98 0.83 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse$35.40 0.02 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.53 0.01 tix
- 3 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.53 0.01 tix
- 2 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 2 Hidetsugu Consumes All
$0.58
0.18 tix
- 1 Kolaghan's Command
$0.32
0.02 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 1 Ob Nixilis, the Adversary
$1.76
0.50 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 2 Tourach, Dread Cantor
$0.48
0.03 tix
- 2 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
