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Backdraft

Multiverse ID: 1558

Backdraft

Comments (15)

Sooku
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0) (2 votes)
I'd rather Shunt it.
OmnicromXR
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0) (4 votes)
Utterly useless. The coolest thing you can do is play this in response to some guy dropping a pyroclasm against with 20 creatures. But yeah, Shunt.
Guest57443454
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0) (2 votes)
At the time in red there wouldn't have been anything better than this, although White had Eye for an Eye and Reverse Damage...
Tanaka348
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0) (4 votes)
Looks like grand fun in multiplayer, where there's a lot better chance of a high damage socery going off that you'll actually survive. Hilarious response to a multiplayer Earthquake. Perhaps not practical, but when it does happen it'll be memorable.
A3Kitsune
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Use against mas s damage, such as Inferno.
Kirbster
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (3 votes)
Is that Doc Brown from Back to the Future?
Luke_BPC
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Inferno is an instant, so it wouldn't work...
Faildini
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Use in response to Chain Reaction in a multiplayer game for hilarious times :)
RJ.693
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Yet another instance of Legends wasting an awesome name on a lousy card. However, I use one in my movie-titles theme deck.
Kryptnyt
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
@Kirbster
I thought so too as soon as I saw this. Great scott!
YawgmothsWish
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Silently behind
a door, it waits.

One breath of oxygen
and it explodes
in a deadly rage.

In that instant
it can create a hero...
or cover a secret.
knighti8
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
I think this card is now under rated with the popularity of bonfire of the damned. I do 8 to you and 8 to all of your creatures ok I respond with backdraft. its cheap enough even affinity can run it.
DoragonShinzui
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Keep in mind, it counts ALL of the damage a Sorcery would deal, and Sorceries aren't necessarily single target.

"Oh, gonna Pyroclasm my goblins? Well screw you too."
jfre81
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Oracle is just about as clunky as the original printed rules text on this one. But it has its uses. Two mana can deal a lot of damage to someone who uses big-damage sorceries. Follow up somebody's Hurricane with this and you might knock them out.

It's probably not worth putting in any maindeck, but it's more playable than a lot of its set and its contemporaries, when flavor drove design at the expense of sound game mechanics.
car2n
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
"Ha! I throw ash in your face!"
*slight breeze picks up*
"OH NOS!"