Gets rid of those annoying creatures once and for all.
Shiduba
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(5 votes)
A better version of Blaze. Banefire is still even better.
Tommy9898
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(3 votes)
I tapped out to disintegrate his face, he mana tithed it. Ever since then I ran molten disaster and never looked back.
ChippyForever
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
Love this card mostly for the flavor. Destroying creatures is fun, blasting them into so much dust and / or a shadow on an adjacent wall is even more so.
jonnyrue2u
★★★☆☆ (3.4/5.0)(4 votes)
This & Banefire are good, but shine with what they deal with, and of course both are an amplified version of Blaze.
stuzzicato
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(3 votes)
Outstanding card, a classic.
Also noteworthy for being a case where being "removed from the game" really fit the flavor of the card perfectly. Having a Disintegrate target "exiled" makes no sense.
@Latecomers to the game: Neither Disintegrate nor Fireball are any version of Blaze. They are the originals. Blaze is a lame, punk version of them from when wotc decided cut back the power in core sets. We lost Disintegrate and Fireball for Blaze, we lost Lightning Bolt for Shock, we lost Counterspell for Cancel.
The_Stray
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I love how the M12 rewording managed to bring this card somewhat closer to it's original Alpha wording. Irony much?
OmegaSerris
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I think it's funny that this card has three different printed forms of the wording for "dies".
A-R: It's 'dies' 4th-5th: It's 'dealt lethal damage' TS: It's 'put into a graveyard'
This still has an edge over Red Sun's Zenith and Demonfire in that this prevents regeneration. Plus, the preventing regeneration and exile don't depend on it doing damage. I once even cast this with = , just for those effects.
Sanjac
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Will this card kill/ banish an indestructible creature, such as a blightsteel colossus?
SkyknightXi
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@Ibn_Shisha: Actually, Blaze made its debut in the Portal sets, which were MEANT to be simplified for the sake of novice players. Thus, neither Fireball's multi-target capability nor Disintegrate's ability to exile creatures. So, removing Fireball for a time made sense, but not so much Disintegrate (at least, not without replacing it with some other actual and easily understandable Blaze+ like Lava Burst). Then again, for the time we had Blaze, it was thought proper for the core sets to BE just a little more complex than the Portal sets...
Dream_Twist
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Oh hey, um, so I know we had a lot of fun back in the day, and I see you're in Modern, so uh, wanna get together again?
Love it. Maybe my favorite red X spell! :)
agamotto
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Like sanjak had asked, How does disintegrate work on indestructible creatures? It doesn't send them to the graveyard, does it just removes them from the game?
Lifegainwithbite
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
No, this card does not work on indestructible creatures. That creature would never be put into a graveyard by this card so it doesn't exile the creature. Same applies to Pillar of Flame.
blurrymadness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is strong sideboard material, often better in the board than something like Red Sun's Zenith because it also counters the odd case of regeneration and you won't keep drawing it; which is good and bad. You hopefully don't need to use it 4-8 times in a game :p
Kontrah
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The first X burn spell I ever played against. The other guy was running Urzatron and it was like my 3rd time ever playing... 'twas gg. Then I argued it was a cheap card to just kill you like that, and he laughed at me. Sure, it lacks the uncounterable clause of some of its buddies, it's still good however.
Anyway, the art amuses me. I imagine the guy depicted in it saw the spell coming... and he thought: "A simple fire spell, I have trained for this, I should be able to shield myself from the bl-" FWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
the end
Hepatizon
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Flat-out magnificent card. A true classic that annihilates the big monsters they try hard to protect, makes resurrection decks cry, and ends opponents while they're still cowering behind impotent blockers. Even scarier with anything that copies spells.
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Also noteworthy for being a case where being "removed from the game" really fit the flavor of the card perfectly. Having a Disintegrate target "exiled" makes no sense.
A-R: It's 'dies'
4th-5th: It's 'dealt lethal damage'
TS: It's 'put into a graveyard'
Now Oracle-d back to 'dies'.
Love it. Maybe my favorite red X spell! :)
Anyway, the art amuses me. I imagine the guy depicted in it saw the spell coming... and he thought: "A simple fire spell, I have trained for this, I should be able to shield myself from the bl-" FWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
the end
I just had to.