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Spontaneous Combustion

Multiverse ID: 4919

Spontaneous Combustion

Comments (11)

badmofo
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (2 votes)
People tend to scoff at this card at first, but it does quickly earn some respect.
doitpow
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Beautiful, works against white white weenie, cheaper than most sweepers. Fun combo with things like Temporary Insanity or Dominus of Fealty
hid@n
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0) (5 votes)
This card might as well be 1BR, 3 damage to every creature. Think about it, you can just sacrifice a creature that it would kill anyways to play it.
TPmanW
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
the sac a creature isn't really so much a cost as a way to ensure that you can't cast this without having any creatures on the field. Otherwise this would be, well maybe not broken, but format defining and (wrath of) god-like. It would be the defining cost of board sweepers- 3 mana, using 2 colors.
draco_nite
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I didn't read the card type at first, and I thought it was an enchantment. Which would have made this a godly card.
Sharu
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
I really like this.

In the right circumstances, can be a one sided wrath for one creature.
Still can clear the board nicely otherwise.

Unfortunately, doesn't kill Silver Knight or White Knight, but we can't have everything, can we?

Very good:
4.5/5
DoragonShinzui
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (3 votes)
Metaphorically speaking,
*Bursts into flames*
TastetheJace
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
No, because sacrificing a creature is part of its casting cost, and it can still be countered while still on the stack.
blurrymadness
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0) (1 vote)
Ah! Corpse explosion! Kind of.

Pretty sweet; though I'd prefer if it hit creatures and plays. Anger of the Gods is a sort-of replacement, but only if you can't benefit from your stuff dying (but you're in RB, you should have a way :D)
SilentNondoer
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I used to take pills against this.