I want this art plastered on the side of a building.
Cyberium
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(4 votes)
What I feel about this card is the same as how I feel about Rebecca Guay's art on Regenerate.
lorendorky
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
5 Mana!? All of these good dual lands out and even Demolish is just too good!? What a scam.
yamas11
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(6 votes)
Why damage to humans only? Are things like cats immune to fire?
Tezz
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(5 votes)
terrible card but OW YEAH FLAVOR
0.5/5 so that you find it when looking for the lowest rated card :)
@yamas11: you suck, read the cardname and flavortext. Hint: Burning crops causes people to not have food. Unless they eat what cats eat.
DarthParallax
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(5 votes)
Revenge? You? I am SMAUG! I kill when I wish! I am strong, strong, STRONG! My armor is like tenfold shields! My teeth like swords! My claws, spears! The shock of my tail, a thunderbolt! My wings, a hurricane! And my breath, DEATH!
Narim
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
BURN, FLAMMABLE LITTLE INSECT, BUUUUURN!
well, for burning token-mad opponents, Rolling Temblor does job way better.
Asmodi0000
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(7 votes)
Another waste of art and flavor.
If every set that follows a Mirrodin set has to have its power reduced to prevent excessive power creep, why not just put more effort in balancing the Mirrodin sets? I mean, look at what happened to poor Kamigawa... great flavor, great art, and some of the worst costed cards since homelands.
RAV0004
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
*fetches exacto-knife and mordant dragon*
Sometimes I feel like a skaabaren.
RJDroid
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(4 votes)
1.5 for the art.
I mean, look at it!
Mightyass
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This card is a missprint. It should have said "Destroy target Gavony Township/Moorland haunt. Make sure that UW or GW Humans are answerable in Standard" Its hard to value a card like this, but its certainly not worthless. Id say 1,5/5, but if Humans see play, this will see sideboard.
wstonefi
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
As someone who generally gets annoyed when good art is wasted on bad cards, this card makes me rage like no other.
Apparently, the dragon is being extremely racist to only torch on living puny humans and not any of the humanoids on Innistrad...
That said, I missed the good old LD.
Radagast
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
Seriously, WotC, what happened here?
Okay, we get the idea that targeted land destruction should not be a viable path to victory because it is boring and locks one side out of the game. But why 4R for a card that basically has no secondary effect? Are we forgetting that for one more red mana you can deal 13 damage to any creature and blast the land, too? Yeesh...
And why does the damage only affect Humans? Are they unusually combustible in Innistrad? If this silly card did 1 damage to all creatures it would make a lot more sense and maybe even be useful in Limited.
Waste of glorious artwork on a horrible card.
Jannissary
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I understand that Wizards has to print cards that support the "theme," and that they want to print cards that don't affect older formats, but come on. It could have dealt one damage to the "creature type of your choice" and it still would have been a little to expensive for what it does,
grynning
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(9 votes)
TROOOOGDOR!!! BURNINATING THE COUNTRY SIDE! BURNINATING THE PEASANTS! BURNINATING ALL THE PEOPLES!
shotoku64
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
"deals 1 damage to each human" is horrible. Most humans are bigger than 1/1 already, not to mention every human deck has honor of the pure
Wulfsten
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@ Yamas: it only affects humans I guess because humans are dependent on the crops from the fields getting burned.
Would have been better and more consistent with flavour (if not the colour pie) if it gave a -1/-1 counter to all humans instead (their fields are gone so they're weaker). And cost 3R rather than 4R. Then it might actually be a decent sideboard against monowhite humans.
Stray_Dog
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This card illustrates the difference between game-oriented flavour and flavour that does not attempt to integrate with the way the game is actually played. Rolling Temblor is a card that attempts to convey its flavour directly via it's interactions on the battlefield. Even it's flashback cost is intented to evoke the 'temblor' erupting once more from beneath the earth (the graveyard in that instance). Scorch the Fields, on the other hand, pays little attention to the fact that there will likely be non-Human creatures on the battlefield whenever this spell is cast which the dragon's flames can somehow ignore. But Scorch the Fields isn't trying to have flavour that works within the context of a duel. Its trying to tell the tale of a dragon raiding a human settlement within the space of a card --flavour over function, rather than flavour and function combined. Or maybe it isn't trying to do that? Maybe the spell just targets Humans because that's how it rolls?
JaxsonBateman
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
5 mana LD with an often irrelevant bonus? Sign me up!
Fireballmage
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
The main problem with this card is that it deals 1 damage, which it really should have dealt 2. 2 damage would at least have a chance of taking out Delver.
Ferlord
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This could have been the art for a bigger boardwipe effect.
Maybe an Armageddon-style card, which destroys all lands or something.
Maybe it could've been a spiritual reprint of Jokulhaups (if it isn't on the revised list).
Right now, it's a very, VERY slow singular land destruction card. Where in the world is Stone Rain?
But seriously, it could have been "destroy target land" AND "destroy all humans", or "deal 1 damage to each non-red creature your opponents control", or even just "destroy up to two target lands". But as it is, it's only something i would consider side-boarding.
Larvald
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
A smidgen underrated, in my opinion. Splashable way to clear Human Soldier tokens, the land destruction is just a little bonus.
Hunter06
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
No where near as bad as its rating would show, this is very decent in Inn-Inn-Dka draft, with all the hummie gitz running around, I coasted on this to victory at least twice during Inn/Dka draft
3/5 Stars
MRE293
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I think this card proves that realistic isn't always good.
GrimjawxRULES
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Kills Eager Cadet. Guess he won't be having his revenge anytime soon.
Lord_of_phyrexia
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
the card sucks but the art.... THE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAART
There's 43 in total, though a few can pump themselves or flip. That's not including token-producers. This card might see play as a sideboard card in limited, against decks that have a lot of small Humans.
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I want this art plastered on the side of a building.
0.5/5 so that you find it when looking for the lowest rated card :)
@yamas11: you suck, read the cardname and flavortext.
Hint: Burning crops causes people to not have food. Unless they eat what cats eat.
My armor is like tenfold shields! My teeth like swords! My claws, spears!
The shock of my tail, a thunderbolt! My wings, a hurricane! And my breath, DEATH!
well, for burning token-mad opponents, Rolling Temblor does job way better.
If every set that follows a Mirrodin set has to have its power reduced to prevent excessive power creep, why not just put more effort in balancing the Mirrodin sets? I mean, look at what happened to poor Kamigawa... great flavor, great art, and some of the worst costed cards since homelands.
Sometimes I feel like a skaabaren.
I mean, look at it!
Its hard to value a card like this, but its certainly not worthless. Id say 1,5/5, but if Humans see play, this will see sideboard.
That said, I missed the good old LD.
Okay, we get the idea that targeted land destruction should not be a viable path to victory because it is boring and locks one side out of the game. But why 4R for a card that basically has no secondary effect? Are we forgetting that for one more red mana you can deal 13 damage to any creature and blast the land, too? Yeesh...
And why does the damage only affect Humans? Are they unusually combustible in Innistrad? If this silly card did 1 damage to all creatures it would make a lot more sense and maybe even be useful in Limited.
Waste of glorious artwork on a horrible card.
BURNINATING THE COUNTRY SIDE!
BURNINATING THE PEASANTS!
BURNINATING ALL THE PEOPLES!
Would have been better and more consistent with flavour (if not the colour pie) if it gave a -1/-1 counter to all humans instead (their fields are gone so they're weaker). And cost 3R rather than 4R. Then it might actually be a decent sideboard against monowhite humans.
Scorch the Fields, on the other hand, pays little attention to the fact that there will likely be non-Human creatures on the battlefield whenever this spell is cast which the dragon's flames can somehow ignore.
But Scorch the Fields isn't trying to have flavour that works within the context of a duel. Its trying to tell the tale of a dragon raiding a human settlement within the space of a card --flavour over function, rather than flavour and function combined.
Or maybe it isn't trying to do that? Maybe the spell just targets Humans because that's how it rolls?
Maybe an Armageddon-style card, which destroys all lands or something.
Maybe it could've been a spiritual reprint of Jokulhaups (if it isn't on the revised list).
Right now, it's a very, VERY slow singular land destruction card. Where in the world is Stone Rain?
But seriously, it could have been "destroy target land" AND "destroy all humans", or "deal 1 damage to each non-red creature your opponents control", or even just "destroy up to two target lands".
But as it is, it's only something i would consider side-boarding.
3/5 Stars
Alchemist's Apprentice, which will just get sac'd anyways.
Avacyn's Pilgrim
Beguiler of Wills
Cathedral Sanctifier
Champion of Lambholt, if you catch it before it gets pumped
Champion of the Parish, same
Civilized Scholar, both flipped and unflipped
Cloistered Youth, if you catch it before it gets flipped
Delver of Secrets, same
Deranged Assistant
Deranged Outcast, which can survive at the cost of sacrificing something else
Diregraf Escort
Disciple of Gristlebrand
Doomed Traveler, which is better off dead anyways
and more.
There's 43 in total, though a few can pump themselves or flip. That's not including token-producers. This card might see play as a sideboard card in limited, against decks that have a lot of small Humans.