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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
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (11)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (25)
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.22 0.02 tix
- 2 Castle Vantress$0.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Celestial Colonnade$0.35 0.02 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Hall of Storm Giants$0.45 0.02 tix
- 2 Hallowed Fountain$8.13 0.06 tix
- 3 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 4 Mystic Gate$3.17 0.02 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Raugrin Triome$16.36 0.14 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Ashiok, Dream Render
$1.03
0.03 tix - 2 Blossoming Calm
$0.20
0.03 tix - 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.83 tix
- 2 Dovin's Veto
$2.02
0.03 tix - 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Kaheera, the Orphanguard
$0.84
0.02 tix - 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.22 tix
- 2 Shark Typhoon
$1.42
0.06 tix - 1 Summary Dismissal
$0.18
0.02 tix
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Instants (21)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.12 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 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
$17.07
0.66 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Subtlety
$15.50
8.00 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix - 2 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
1
Final: 1 |
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (9)
Artifacts (2)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (23)
- 4 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.81 0.02 tix
- 3 Blood Crypt$9.17 0.02 tix
- 4 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 2 Den of the Bugbear$1.30 0.17 tix
- 1 Graven Cairns$1.98 0.02 tix
- 1 Graven Cairns$1.98 0.02 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance$2.38 0.03 tix
- 3 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire$11.29 0.14 tix
- 2 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.12 tix
- 1 Boil
$0.23
0.05 tix - 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.83 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.83 tix
- 2 Collective Brutality
$0.35
0.07 tix - 3 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Kolaghan's Command
$0.32
0.02 tix
- 1 Terminate
$0.29
0.02 tix
- 2 Tourach, Dread Cantor
$0.48
0.03 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 2 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.12 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Fury
$0.58
0.70 tix
- 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
$17.07
0.66 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Subtlety
$15.50
8.00 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 2 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (2)
Artifacts (16)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.83 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Ensnaring Bridge
$5.90
4.70 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$4.75
3.00 tix - 1 Foundation Breaker
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Golos, Tireless Pilgrim
$2.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
$41.74
0.02 tix - 1 Liquimetal Coating
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Sundering Titan
$0.78
0.02 tix - 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 1 Trinisphere
$29.08
7.62 tix
- 1 Walking Ballista
$7.43
1.16 tix
- 1 Wurmcoil Engine
$8.87
0.12 tix
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (15)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (26)
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.22 0.02 tix
- 4 Ketria Triome$17.06 0.15 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Forest$0.81 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Mountain$0.50 0.01 tix
- 4 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 3 Stomping Ground$6.90 0.02 tix
- 3 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle$10.05 0.02 tix
Sideboard
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (11)
Lands (22)
- 2 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.81 0.02 tix
- 2 Blood Crypt$9.17 0.02 tix
- 2 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 2 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 Raging Ravine$0.17 0.02 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$6.90 0.02 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire$11.29 0.14 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$17.82 2.48 tix
- 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground$9.95 0.09 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Alpine Moon
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.83 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor
$4.75
3.00 tix
- 4 Leyline of the Void
$0.42
0.06 tix
- 1 Shadowspear
$18.49
0.61 tix
- 1 Torpor Orb
$4.02
0.39 tix
- 2 Tourach, Dread Cantor
$0.48
0.03 tix
1
Final: 1 |
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (2)
Instants (4)
Artifacts (5)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (32)
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.83 0.01 tix
- 1 Boros Garrison$0.17 0.01 tix
- 2 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 1 Castle Garenbrig$6.97 0.02 tix
- 3 Cavern of Souls$50.49 0.53 tix
- 1 Crumbling Vestige$0.18 0.03 tix
- 4 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Gruul Turf$0.21 0.01 tix
- 3 Selesnya Sanctuary$0.23 0.01 tix
- 4 Simic Growth Chamber$0.24 0.01 tix
- 1 Slayers' Stronghold$0.27 0.02 tix
- 1 Sunhome, Fortress of the Legion$0.31 0.03 tix
- 1 Tolaria West$0.43 0.45 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.77 14.70 tix
- 1 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle$10.05 0.02 tix
- 1 Vesuva$2.29 0.02 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 1 Cavern of Souls$50.49 0.53 tix
- 2 Endurance
$3.97
4.00 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$4.75
3.00 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Karn, the Great Creator
$3.12
0.10 tix - 1 Liquimetal Coating
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Radiant Fountain$0.31 0.03 tix
- 1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
$1.71
0.02 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 1 Walking Ballista
$7.43
1.16 tix
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Instants (22)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.12 tix
- 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
$17.07
0.66 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Subtlety
$15.50
8.00 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 2 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
5
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Instants (21)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.12 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.64
1.54 tix
- 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
$17.07
0.66 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Subtlety
$15.50
8.00 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 2 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
- 1 Fiery Islet$4.08 7.28 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 tix
- 2 Spirebluff Canal$5.08 0.62 tix
- 2 Spirebluff Canal$5.08 0.62 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
Sideboard
1
Final: 1 |
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (4)
Artifacts (10)
Lands (22)
- 1 Blast Zone$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Cascading Cataracts$1.30 0.02 tix
- 1 Cavern of Souls$50.49 0.53 tix
- 1 Sanctum of Ugin$2.60 0.02 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 Urza's Mine$0.57 0.03 tix
- 3 Urza's Power Plant$0.65 0.03 tix
- 1 Urza's Power Plant$0.65 0.03 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.77 14.70 tix
- 2 Urza's Tower$0.62 0.03 tix
- 2 Urza's Tower$0.62 0.03 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Basilisk Collar
$4.00
0.02 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.83 tix
- 1 Crucible of Worlds
$21.00
0.02 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Ensnaring Bridge
$5.90
4.70 tix
- 1 Liquimetal Coating
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 1 Oblivion Stone
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Skysovereign, Consul Flagship
$1.71
0.02 tix
- 1 Sorcerous Spyglass
$0.08
0.02 tix
- 1 Sundering Titan
$0.78
0.02 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 1 Trinisphere
$29.08
7.62 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
- 1 Wurmcoil Engine
$8.87
0.12 tix
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.12 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 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
$17.07
0.66 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Subtlety
$15.50
8.00 tix
- 2 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
3
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (16)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
14.25 tix
- 2 Kozilek's Return
$0.33
0.45 tix
- 1 Meltdown
$0.18
0.74 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 2 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
14.45 tix
- 1 Serenity
$0.29
3.11 tix
- 1 Sevinne's Reclamation
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 1 Stony Silence
$0.69
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (1)
Artifacts (16)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Dismember
$3.01
3.76 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Ensnaring Bridge
$5.90
4.70 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$4.75
3.00 tix
- 1 Golos, Tireless Pilgrim
$2.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Kozilek, Butcher of Truth
$41.74
0.02 tix
- 1 Liquimetal Coating
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 1 Nature's Claim
$0.44
0.01 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Sundering Titan
$0.78
0.02 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 1 Trinisphere
$29.08
7.62 tix
- 1 Walking Ballista
$7.43
1.16 tix
- 1 Wurmcoil Engine
$8.87
0.12 tix
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.50
0.04 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 2 Kolaghan's Command
$0.32
0.02 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 2 Tourach, Dread Cantor
$0.48
0.03 tix
- 2 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (22)
Lands (22)
- 1 Darkslick Shores$1.87 0.02 tix
- 4 Field of Ruin$0.20 0.03 tix
- 1 Mikokoro, Center of the Sea$4.96 0.02 tix
- 1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds$16.83 0.02 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 2 Shelldock Isle$2.36 0.02 tix
- 4 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Swamp$0.53 0.01 tix
- 1 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
- 1 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Instants (3)
Artifacts (17)
- 1 Aether Spellbomb
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Chromatic Star
$0.23
0.03 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.78 tix
- 1 Shadowspear
$18.49
0.61 tix
- 1 Sword of the Meek
$0.30
0.02 tix
- 2 Talisman of Progress
$0.32
0.03 tix
- 1 Nettlecyst
$3.07
0.02 tix
- 1 Kaldra Compleat
$8.18
0.10 tix - 4 Portable Hole
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 3 Thopter Foundry
$0.17
0.02 tix
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (23)
- 1 Cavern of Souls$50.49 0.53 tix
- 2 Darksteel Citadel$1.00 0.01 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 2 Hallowed Fountain$8.13 0.06 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Razortide Bridge$0.25 0.03 tix
- 4 Seachrome Coast$0.30 0.02 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.77 14.70 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Damping Sphere
$1.11
1.12 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 2 March of Otherworldly Light
$0.84
2.21 tix
- 2 Path to Exile
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 1 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.78 tix
- 1 Sanctifier en-Vec
$0.32
0.15 tix
- 3 Supreme Verdict
$1.49
0.10 tix
- 1 Sword of Fire and Ice
$26.81
0.02 tix
7
Final: 7 |
