mb2
2xm
uma
puma
mps
mma
5dn
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
Non-foilFoil
Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Engineered Explosives
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Instants (4)
Artifacts (12)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (21)
- 1 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 2 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Mountain$0.50 0.01 tix
- 3 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 4 Urza's Saga$35.77 14.70 tix
Sideboard
- 3 Aether Gust
$0.24
0.03 tix - 2 Alpine Moon
$0.25
0.02 tix - 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.50
0.04 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Sai, Master Thopterist
$0.33
0.02 tix
- 2 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix - 1 Urza, Lord High Artificer
$14.15
0.22 tix
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (19)
- 1 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
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 4 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 Archmage's Charm
$1.21
0.17 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 Fury
$0.58
0.70 tix - 1 Fury
$0.58
0.70 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.64
1.54 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.78 tix
- 2 Subtlety
$15.50
8.00 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
5
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Alpine Moon
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
$0.28
0.02 tix - 2 Kolaghan's Command
$0.32
0.02 tix - 1 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 (11)
Instants (22)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Instants (21)
- 3 Lightning Bolt
$0.81
0.02 tix
- 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.81
0.02 tix
- 4 Unholy Heat
$0.32
0.01 tix
- 4 Consider
$0.26
0.01 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 3 Archmage's Charm
$1.21
0.17 tix
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
- 1 Fiery Islet$4.08 7.28 tix
- 2 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
- 1 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
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
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Alpine Moon
$0.25
0.02 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 Jegantha, the Wellspring
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 1 Kaito Shizuki
$1.13
0.02 tix
- 2 Kolaghan's Command
$0.32
0.02 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 1 Tourach, Dread Cantor
$0.48
0.03 tix
- 2 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Instants (22)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Instants (21)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
1
Final: 1 |
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (5)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (20)
- 2 Blast Zone$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 3 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 3 Den of the Bugbear$1.30 0.17 tix
- 1 Fiery Islet$4.08 7.28 tix
- 1 Forgotten Cave$0.12 0.03 tix
- 1 Forgotten Cave$0.12 0.03 tix
- 1 Forgotten Cave$0.12 0.03 tix
- 3 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep$14.98 0.02 tix
- 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance$2.38 0.03 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.12 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.83 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.83 tix
- 2 Dragon's Claw
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Fulminator Mage
$1.14
0.02 tix - 2 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 1 Ricochet Trap
$0.42
0.03 tix
- 1 Shattering Spree
$0.94
0.22 tix
- 1 Shatterstorm
$0.30
0.15 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
- 1 Fiery Islet$4.08 7.28 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 3 Island$0.05 0.01 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
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 4 Spirebluff Canal$5.08 0.62 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (12)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Alpine Moon
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 2 Kolaghan's Command
$0.32
0.02 tix
- 1 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
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (1)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (23)
- 2 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.81 0.02 tix
- 4 Blood Crypt$9.17 0.02 tix
- 4 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 3 Den of the Bugbear$1.30 0.17 tix
- 3 Graven Cairns$1.98 0.02 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep$14.98 0.02 tix
- 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse$35.40 0.02 tix
- 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance$2.38 0.03 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire$11.29 0.14 tix
- 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth$58.03 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Alpine Moon
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 2 Ashiok, Dream Render
$1.03
0.03 tix - 1 Boil
$0.23
0.05 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.83 tix
- 3 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Terminate
$0.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Tourach, Dread Cantor
$0.48
0.03 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
- 2 Void Mirror
$0.33
0.02 tix
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (9)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Alpine Moon
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Jegantha, the Wellspring
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 2 Kolaghan's Command
$0.32
0.02 tix
- 1 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
1
Final: 1 |
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
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (7)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (23)
- 1 Blackcleave Cliffs$1.81 0.02 tix
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.17 0.02 tix
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.17 0.02 tix
- 3 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 1 Dryad Arbor$3.71 0.02 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Overgrown Tomb$9.30 0.02 tix
- 1 Overgrown Tomb$9.30 0.02 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$6.90 0.02 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 3 Urza's Saga$35.77 14.70 tix
- 2 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
- 2 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 Ashiok, Dream Render
$1.03
0.03 tix
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.83 tix
- 2 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 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Torpor Orb
$4.02
0.39 tix
- 1 Tourach, Dread Cantor
$0.48
0.03 tix
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (1)
Instants (3)
Artifacts (10)
Planeswalkers (8)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
- 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
$16.30
8.88 tix - 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Ensnaring Bridge
$5.90
4.70 tix
- 1 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Liquimetal Coating
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 1 Mystic Forge
$2.40
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Ratchet Bomb
$0.35
0.02 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 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
5
Final: 5 |
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (17)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (26)
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.22 0.02 tix
- 4 Ketria Triome$17.06 0.15 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.81 0.01 tix
- 3 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
- 2 Stomping Ground$6.90 0.02 tix
- 3 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle$10.05 0.02 tix
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
- 1 Fiery Islet$4.08 7.28 tix
- 2 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
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 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
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (10)
Enchantments (7)
Lands (30)
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.22 0.02 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$8.13 0.06 tix
- 1 Ketria Triome$17.06 0.15 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 1 Raugrin Triome$16.36 0.14 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 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
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.37 0.01 tix
- 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance$2.38 0.03 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
- 3 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
- 3 Wooded Foothills$17.82 2.48 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Alpine Moon
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 2 Boseiju, Who Endures$47.78 9.31 tix
- 1 Emrakul, the Promised End
$16.30
8.88 tix
- 1 Endurance
$3.97
4.00 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Force of Vigor
$4.75
3.00 tix
- 3 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.78 tix
- 3 Veil of Summer
$3.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Yorion, Sky Nomad
$0.29
0.02 tix
