Brilliance Unleashed is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Choose one or both — • Brilliance Unleashed deals 5 damage to target creature. • Choose target artifact card in your graveyard. Return it to the battlefield if it's an artifact creature card. Otherwise, return it to the battlefield and it's a 3/3 Robot artifact creature with flying.
Complete guide
Brilliance Unleashed is a versatile Izzet sorcery that offers both destruction and a powerful robotic revival. Whether you need to clear a threat or bring back a scrap-metal ally, this spell ensures your board state remains dominant. By choosing one or both modes, you can swing the tide of battle in a single turn.
Understanding the Modes
This sorcery allows you to target a creature for 5 damage and simultaneously target an artifact in your graveyard. If the artifact you choose is already a creature, it returns to play as its normal self. If it is a noncreature artifact, it gains the creature type 'Robot', becomes a 3/3, and gains flying, while retaining all of its original abilities.
Step-by-Step Resolution
First, you cast the spell and choose your targets for the selected modes. Upon resolution, the damage is dealt to the creature target first. Immediately after, the artifact is moved from the graveyard to the battlefield. If the artifact was not a creature, it enters as a 3/3 Robot with flying. Note that these actions happen in the order written on the card.
Common Mistakes to Avoid
A common misconception is that the Robot transformation removes existing abilities. According to the official rulings, the artifact keeps all of its original text; it simply gains a new power, toughness, and flying. Additionally, if you choose both modes and one target becomes illegal, the spell will still attempt to resolve the remaining valid target.
When to Unleash the Brilliance
Because this spell costs six mana, it is best utilized in the mid-to-late game when you have high-value artifacts sitting in your graveyard. It serves as a dual-purpose tool to stabilize against aggressive decks by removing a blocker while simultaneously building your own aerial presence.
Interaction examples
Mana GeyserIf your opponents have at least six tapped lands, you can cast Mana Geyser to generate the required mana. This allows you to cast Brilliance Unleashed early, catching your opponent off guard by destroying their best creature and resurrecting an artifact as a 3/3 flying Robot before they are ready to defend against it.
Chandra's IgnitionAfter using Brilliance Unleashed to return a noncreature artifact as a 3/3 Robot creature, you can then cast Chandra's Ignition targeting that new Robot. The Robot will deal 3 damage to every other creature and each opponent, effectively turning your resurrected utility artifact into a repeatable board wipe or a finishing blow.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Brilliance Unleashed
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
The last mode of Brilliance Unleashed doesn't remove any abilities the artifact has.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Brilliance Unleashed + Lithoform Engine + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Zirda, the Dawnwaker
- 1Cast Brilliance Unleashed by paying
. Choose its second mode, targeting any artifact card in your graveyard. - 2Holding priority, activate Lithoform Engine's second ability by paying
due to Zirda and tapping it, targeting Brilliance Unleashed. - 3Holding priority, activate Krark-Clan Ironworks by sacrificing Lithoform Engine, adding
. - 4Resolve the Lithoform Engine ability, copying Brilliance Unleashed, targeting Lithoform Engine.
- 5Resolve the copy of Brilliance Unleashed, returning Lithoform Engine from your graveyard to the battlefield as a 3/3 Robot artifact creature.
- 6Repeat from step 2.
Brilliance Unleashed + Lithoform Engine + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Cyclops of Eternal Fury
- 1Cast Brilliance Unleashed by paying . Choose its second mode, targeting any artifact card in your graveyard.
- 2Holding priority, activate Lithoform Engine's second ability by paying
due to Forensic Gadgeteer and tapping it, targeting Brilliance Unleashed. - 3Holding priority, activate Krark-Clan Ironworks by sacrificing Lithoform Engine, adding .
- 4Resolve the Lithoform Engine ability, copying Brilliance Unleashed, targeting Lithoform Engine.
- 5Resolve the copy of Brilliance Unleashed, returning Lithoform Engine from your graveyard to the battlefield as a 3/3 Robot artifact creature.
- 6Repeat from step 2.
Brilliance Unleashed + Lithoform Engine + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Twinning Staff
- 1Cast Brilliance Unleashed by paying . Choose its second mode, targeting any artifact card in your graveyard.
- 2Holding priority, activate Lithoform Engine's second ability by paying
and tapping it, targeting Brilliance Unleashed. - 3Holding priority, activate Krark-Clan Ironworks by sacrificing Lithoform Engine, adding .
- 4Resolve the Lithoform Engine ability, copying Brilliance Unleashed twice due to Twinning Staff, targeting Lithoform Engine and another artifact card in your graveyard.
- 5Resolve both copies of Brilliance Unleashed, returning Lithoform Engine and the other artifact from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 6Holding priority, activate Krark-Clan Ironworks by sacrificing the other artifact, adding .
- 7Repeat from step 2.
Brilliance Unleashed + Lithoform Engine + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Twinning Staff
- 1Cast Brilliance Unleashed by paying . Choose its second mode, targeting any artifact card in your graveyard.
- 2Holding priority, activate Lithoform Engine's second ability by paying and tapping it, targeting Brilliance Unleashed.
- 3Holding priority, activate Krark-Clan Ironworks by sacrificing Lithoform Engine, adding .
- 4Resolve the Lithoform Engine ability, copying Brilliance Unleashed twice due to Twinning Staff, targeting Lithoform Engine and another artifact card in your graveyard.
- 5Resolve both copies of Brilliance Unleashed, returning Lithoform Engine and the other artifact from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 6Holding priority, activate Krark-Clan Ironworks by sacrificing the other artifact, adding .
- 7Repeat from step 2.
Brilliance Unleashed + Lithoform Engine + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Urabrask the Hidden
- 1Cast Brilliance Unleashed by paying . Choose its second mode, targeting any artifact card in your graveyard.
- 2Holding priority, activate Lithoform Engine's second ability by paying due to Zirda and tapping it, targeting Brilliance Unleashed.
- 3Holding priority, activate Krark-Clan Ironworks by sacrificing Lithoform Engine, adding .
- 4Resolve the Lithoform Engine ability, copying Brilliance Unleashed, targeting Lithoform Engine.
- 5Resolve the copy of Brilliance Unleashed, returning Lithoform Engine from your graveyard to the battlefield as a 3/3 Robot artifact creature.
- 6Repeat from step 2.
Brilliance Unleashed + Lithoform Engine + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Nahiri's Resolve
- 1Cast Brilliance Unleashed by paying . Choose its second mode, targeting any artifact card in your graveyard.
- 2Holding priority, activate Lithoform Engine's second ability by paying due to Forensic Gadgeteer and tapping it, targeting Brilliance Unleashed.
- 3Holding priority, activate Krark-Clan Ironworks by sacrificing Lithoform Engine, adding .
- 4Resolve the Lithoform Engine ability, copying Brilliance Unleashed, targeting Lithoform Engine.
- 5Resolve the copy of Brilliance Unleashed, returning Lithoform Engine from your graveyard to the battlefield as a 3/3 Robot artifact creature.
- 6Repeat from step 2.
Brilliance Unleashed + Lithoform Engine + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Power Artifact
- 1Cast Brilliance Unleashed by paying . Choose its second mode, targeting any artifact card in your graveyard.
- 2Holding priority, activate Lithoform Engine's second ability by paying due to Power Artifact and tapping it, targeting Brilliance Unleashed.
- 3Holding priority, activate Krark-Clan Ironworks by sacrificing Lithoform Engine, adding .
- 4Resolve the Lithoform Engine ability, copying Brilliance Unleashed, targeting Lithoform Engine.
- 5Resolve the copy of Brilliance Unleashed, returning Lithoform Engine from your graveyard to the battlefield as a 3/3 Robot artifact creature.
- 6Repeat from step 2.
Brilliance Unleashed + Lithoform Engine + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Twinning Staff
- 1Cast Brilliance Unleashed by paying . Choose its second mode, targeting any artifact card in your graveyard.
- 2Holding priority, activate Lithoform Engine's second ability by paying and tapping it, targeting Brilliance Unleashed.
- 3Holding priority, activate Krark-Clan Ironworks by sacrificing Lithoform Engine, adding .
- 4Resolve the Lithoform Engine ability, copying Brilliance Unleashed twice due to Twinning Staff, targeting Lithoform Engine and another artifact card in your graveyard.
- 5Resolve both copies of Brilliance Unleashed, returning Lithoform Engine and the other artifact from your graveyard to the battlefield.
- 6Holding priority, activate Krark-Clan Ironworks by sacrificing the other artifact, adding .
- 7Repeat from step 2.
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