people who are rating this 4 and 5 are not looking at what it costs for the effect it has, the effect is AWESOME, the cost is prohibitive. if it had Land destruction tacked on as well it might be awesome, or if it were instant. lavalanche sounds like land destruction any way, and look at the art. destroy x lands would be too strong though maybe non-basic or 1/2 x
Cenelder
★★☆☆☆ (2.3/5.0)(3 votes)
not really worth it unless you have 6 mana to deal 3 to everything IMO, and by turn 6 you may want to consider playing something a bit more deadly. I dunno, its good, just sort of situational and probably a side board card.
BrimandVormay
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(5 votes)
this card's real advantage is if you use mana excelleration, rampant growth, shard convergence, obelisks... when used in combination with these things it's a deadly card. so what if you have to pay 8 mama, you could do 5 damage to your opponent and probably kill off anything he even thinks is going to deal damage
SavageBrain89
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(5 votes)
Good card, but its true potential is released only if the correct mana acceleration is utilized.
Skybreaker
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Lavalanche is a mini version of Chandra ...
PaladinOfSunhome
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Good card, but kinda exspensive. I agree with DavidHuman. I'd still pick other stuff over it, though for a casul deck. You really need alot of mana to spare for this card, and casting it will most likly be ytour whole turn.
3.0
Billchu13
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(4 votes)
This card is built for limited. Biggest bomb rare in the set.
solmalka
★★☆☆☆ (2.1/5.0)(4 votes)
This card ruins games in Limited. If your opponent plays it, you almost certainly lose. It's totally one-sided and there is almost no way to play around it. It doesn't require much creativity to use it effectively, either. At least symmetric Wrath or Pyroclasm effects require you to sandbag your own creatures, possibly tipping off your opponent that something's coming. With Lavalanche, you just play out your dudes normally and then blow out your opponent.
Martial Coup is much the same. If you play it for 7 or more mana, you just win.
Plague Wind was fine since 9 mana is almost prohibitive, even in Limited. Lavalanche can be a blowout at as little as 5 or 6 mana. That's just not fair.
Please stop making cards like this.
- Sol
Th3_Dark_On3
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Kills Lorwyn merfolk even if X is 1, 2, or 3. Also this is one of very few effective ways of killing U/B fae.
Arachibutyrophobia
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
This card is supposed to clear out chump blockers so you can hit with a super-powerful devourer, such asThunder-Thrash Elder.
Iiory
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(1 vote)
you have volcanic fallout,blaze,banefire.....is it just me or jund isn`t that he is ment to be
h4mx0r
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
If you play this in Limited, it will most likely cause you to win. Gives you field advantage AND life advantage.
Kenji18
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(2 votes)
I am unsure why people are not giving this card higher marks. I run it in my domain deck. Spend the early turns mana fixing with cards like Exploding Borders that also soften the opponent, then wipe their side of the board for 5 or 6. Try it with Cloven Casting. Pay 1 less for the X cost, then copy it. It's fun to blast someone for 7 late game, copy it, then walk in with a 16/16 Apocolypse Hydra that needed a couple of chumpers to get out of the way.
For those that still want to complain that it costs too much, then I'm sure that you haven't had your board wiped yet.
djpraiseadelik
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I have it sideboarded simply because my deck has a low mana curve and has a lot of burn/destruction in 4 L. Bolts and 4 Terminates + 4 Colossal Mights for boost. Still a huge card if I ever have to use it.
Donovan_Fabian
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(7 votes)
This card doesn't cost to much -at all-, look at the affect.. its a one sided earthquake that affects flyers, and its not divided like rolling thunder. Also what does this do that should strike everyone immediately.. Ma.ssive token removal! Kaboom kithkins, goblins, and bitterblossoms, and saprolings. Its a one sided day of judgement, that also hurts your opponent. If you only play it to wipe out a myriad of 1/1's its only 4 mana. Then 5 for 2/2's and so on. Thats not an overcosted card thats a board wiping card that you can use any time between mid and late game to clear way for a big creature.
EnV
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Well this is only useful when using a five color or a Jund deck. But this burn doesn't have a limit to how much damage you can dish out. X meaning you can pay anything limited to mana. Of course there is the threat of counters and prevention. Compare this with Flame wave
lorendorky
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(10 votes)
I find it amusing when people look at a card like this and say "only good in Jund or 5 color" no... freakin'... duh.
skew
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Duck and cover.
zqft
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
FWOOSH.
EvilCleavage
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(11 votes)
I was at my buddies house out of town with my younger brother last week, and I had convinced my brother to play Magic for the first time (he always made fun of me for it by the way), and we were all playing and I think he felt left out, so he said he'd play. So I let him play my Jund deck. Half way through the game he shows me this card and asks me what he should do with it. I'm a fair player so I told him how it worked and that he could kill 4 of my creatures or all of my buddies. Instantly he said he wanted to use it on my buddy so he could wipe out all of his creatures and knock him for a bunch of life. I swear ever since that moment he was hooked. We've played every day since then and now I finally have someone to play with! YES!
Gaussgoat
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
I can't believe how low this thing is rated on here. The card is a BOMB in a set of colors that is already laden with bombs.
I mean, you're talking about completely wiping someone's board and killing them in the process.
Powerhouse of a card, even if you're only hitting for 2-3 points of damage.
5/5
markarmor
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Nice alternative to Savage Twister in Multiplayer, EDH formats or when you have your own mini-army since you can avoid annoying all the people at the table.
infernox10
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The best thing about this card is the fact that it has green on its side.
Other board damage is good, though it targets you and your creatures,
But this bomb deems your opponent unworthy,
And your Llanowar Elves and Birds of Paradise nod their heads in agreement.
Nagoragama
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I heard some people talking about this card and I thought to myself, they didn't make a card called Lavalanche, come on, that is the stupidest name I have ever heard.
Came home, looked it up, sure enough.
sigh
SweetZombiJesus
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I used this is my Jund deck. A lot of people under-estimated how powerful it was; sometimes it would take out Ajani and his entire army.
ridiculousricky
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is like chandra's ultimata, but usable wherever and without 2 turns of notice
BuffJittePLZ
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Decent when this was in standard, ridiculous in limited, a game-winner in either format.
DarthParallax
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
ok, off topic I know, but this just got me thinking....what would you get for XUBR? besides the most kickass mana symbol abbreviation in the game? at Mythic, how about Glimpse the Unthinkable with a Comet Storm rider? xD or maybe Thought Hemmorage spliced with Traumatize? how about Consume Spirit without the color drawback, + Mindspring, + Fireball? lmao be grateful they make the cards, not me. :p
Banx
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I used lavalanche in casual multiplayer to kill 2 platinum angels after having a fireball counterspelled the previous turn to win the match. I know not everyone likes situational victory stories of how a card came out on top, but having a player targeting creature wiper late game in a jund dragon deck can produce results as intended.
DacenOctavio
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(7 votes)
Oh, silly Jund. Burninating the countryside.
NoobOfLore
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Think of it as a fireball, except instead of dividing the damage and paying extra for every additional target, it costs more and hits everything you would have wanted to in the first place.
franconbean
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(10 votes)
This will help make sure that you're opponent doesn't lava nice day.
Totema
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I love cards that are awesome AND useful!
N3wtn
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@franconbean
CARLOS!!
Axelle
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Past 5 mana, this is more cost-effective than Bonfire of the Damned. At exactly 5 mana, this is equally as effective as Bonfire.
DragonsRCool
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ Axelle Not if you use it's miracle cost.
Kaleidostorm
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I accidentally your creatures.
DarkonCrack
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(2 votes)
@All of you saying this is a bomb card and don't understand its low rating
Yes, this card is a POWERHOUSE. See Bonfire of the Damned as a good example of this card's potential. The problem with it though is actually it's colors. Because it's in Jund, you are auto including Bloodbraid Elf into your deck in 4. There is NOTHING worse to cascade into than an X spell because X has to be 0. So with the elf, you get nothing if you cascade into this and you just lost one of your most powerful spells. Things like Blightning were just so much better for that deck because it ensured that your opponent wouldn't have the spells to play and would take direct damage.
So if you're asking yourself why this card isn't more popular, put all the blame on Bloodbraid Elf. As an Esper player, that's what I do... that card is too OP.
SirLibraryEater
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This was one of my first cards (my first foil, too) and the reason why I played Jund for so long. Beautiful finisher, and incredible answer to a token deck.
SAUS3
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I have a not-so-casual casual tooth and nail deck (it was my first deck and it was full of timmy, but after years of playing and growing up, it is now just an excessively mean casual deck lol) which runs 2 of these. I use cloudpost + glimmerpost to power out big colourless mana.
I think the most I've done with this was 16.
For the record, my deck has no infinites, and the targets for tooth and nail are really budget. I use terastodon + kederekt leviathan (destroy 3 lands, then all non-land permanents get bounced leaving my opponent with an empty field and -3 lands) or tyrant of discord + realm razer (all lands disappear, then all your permanents get sacrificed in a random order). It's a funny deck :P
OlvynChuru
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Lavalanche is a very, very good card. Why? Well, compare it to Clan Defiance, which is already a very good card. For just one more mana, Lavalanche affects every single creature the opponent has, not just one or two of them. In addition, Lavalanche can affect creatures with shroud/hexproof.
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3.0
Biggest bomb rare in the set.
Martial Coup is much the same. If you play it for 7 or more mana, you just win.
Plague Wind was fine since 9 mana is almost prohibitive, even in Limited. Lavalanche can be a blowout at as little as 5 or 6 mana. That's just not fair.
Please stop making cards like this.
- Sol
Also this is one of very few effective ways of killing U/B fae.
For those that still want to complain that it costs too much, then I'm sure that you haven't had your board wiped yet.
I mean, you're talking about completely wiping someone's board and killing them in the process.
Powerhouse of a card, even if you're only hitting for 2-3 points of damage.
5/5
Other board damage is good, though it targets you and your creatures,
But this bomb deems your opponent unworthy,
And your Llanowar Elves and Birds of Paradise nod their heads in agreement.
Came home, looked it up, sure enough.
sigh
CARLOS!!
Not if you use it's miracle cost.
Yes, this card is a POWERHOUSE. See Bonfire of the Damned as a good example of this card's potential. The problem with it though is actually it's colors. Because it's in Jund, you are auto including Bloodbraid Elf into your deck in 4. There is NOTHING worse to cascade into than an X spell because X has to be 0. So with the elf, you get nothing if you cascade into this and you just lost one of your most powerful spells. Things like Blightning were just so much better for that deck because it ensured that your opponent wouldn't have the spells to play and would take direct damage.
So if you're asking yourself why this card isn't more popular, put all the blame on Bloodbraid Elf. As an Esper player, that's what I do... that card is too OP.
Beautiful finisher, and incredible answer to a token deck.
I think the most I've done with this was 16.
For the record, my deck has no infinites, and the targets for tooth and nail are really budget. I use terastodon + kederekt leviathan (destroy 3 lands, then all non-land permanents get bounced leaving my opponent with an empty field and -3 lands) or tyrant of discord + realm razer (all lands disappear, then all your permanents get sacrificed in a random order). It's a funny deck :P
4.5/5