Wrath of God may be gone, but at least good old earthquake will compensate.
God_of_Destruction
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(4 votes)
Goodbye nasty critters, u need wings to evade this... not to mention that you would deal damage to everyone... Great in multiplayer games...
Grimn777
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(3 votes)
good burn/board sweep. Drawbacks: can't hit fliers(that's what targeted burn/destruction is for), burns you (in red, you should be dealing out more damage faster as it is, no problem). 4.5/5
Guest1383951442
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(3 votes)
It's not like red needed another way to wipe the board besides pyroclasm..but still nice.
masail19
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
@Joseph: Did you mean Soulbright Flamekin? Had fun with Hurricane when it was in Tenth, but Earthquake is the genuine article. Blowing creatures up is far more red than green anyways. This card is an autoinclude for my Soldier Sligh deck that I plan to build.
Iiory
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
hurricane and earthquake....and to the world is comming :p
Plantboy81
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(4 votes)
Glad to see this classic red card return. IMO it should never have been taken out of the core set.
MasterOfEtherium
★☆☆☆☆ (1.6/5.0)(7 votes)
I Run This Baby In A Blue Red Flyer Deck With Huge Draw Power Plus Big Fliers Like Niv-Mizzet, SpellBound Dragon And Dominus Of Fealty. Pretty Much Counter Everything Big, Lay Out All The Tokens With Earthquake And Then Throw Out Huge Fliers. I Love Earthquake. So Glad They Put This In M10
pigknight
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Kills most tokens, except possibly soldiers and fliers.
OutlawD1
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I'm not sure why hurricane got into rotation before this card. Its an ability that screams red. It goes nicely with pyroclasm and volcanic fallout, and picks up the slack. Great card, with excellent art.
Lunarblade
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
This rated higher than Chain Reaction? Hmm...
dragonking987
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
sadly unlike day of judgment it can not blast threw protection but it can blast threw shroud.
anyone thought about if you control a planeswalker... you can redirect all of the dmg to him and steal the win if you and your opponent are at the same life total?
altf4ninja
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
i run a playset of these in my burn deck. the fact it doesn't hit flyers helps with chandra's spitfire ability. Love it, definately a 5/5 in my books. and it even hits planeswalkers.
Ibn_Shisha
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I wonder why they went back to the Portal art for M10?
I was happy when they reprinted Earthquake in M10. I want to get an altered-art version with a scene from Haiti.
EDIT: I wished I had waited a week before posting that. Change Haiti to Japan! Actually, I should get a whole playset of them with scenes also from Los Angeles and India.
divine_exodus
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
About time they printed it with flavor text.
jeff-heikkinen
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
lorendorky: You cannot redirect damage to your own planeswalkers. You can only redirect (noncombat) damage a source you control would deal to an opponent. You are not your own opponent.
leomistico
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Thanks to this only edition, Earthquake is in Modern!
A very useful mass-destruction red spell, that since the beginning gives to red a definitive toll. What makes Earthquake somehow better than Wrath of God like spells is that you can build your deck with this in mind (full of flying creatures, for example), and you can cast it deciding its X value according to the battlefield situation...
A great card, for sure, but I miss the Richard Kane Ferguson art.
Three_Toe
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Gotta go 5/5 for this guy. Very splashable of course and turn that "drawback" of missing flying creatures into an advantage by... playing flying creatures with it!!! Amazing in RW or RU decks. Good in mono red too. I run this in my Kaalia of the Vast EDH deck and it's very, very effective against one of the main thing kaalia decks fear: tokens!
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Had fun with Hurricane when it was in Tenth, but Earthquake is the genuine article. Blowing creatures up is far more red than green anyways. This card is an autoinclude for my Soldier Sligh deck that I plan to build.
Great card, with excellent art.
EDIT: I wished I had waited a week before posting that. Change Haiti to Japan! Actually, I should get a whole playset of them with scenes also from Los Angeles and India.
A very useful mass-destruction red spell, that since the beginning gives to red a definitive toll. What makes Earthquake somehow better than Wrath of God like spells is that you can build your deck with this in mind (full of flying creatures, for example), and you can cast it deciding its X value according to the battlefield situation...
A classic, and a favourite of mine!
5/5