Engineered Explosives 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
Sunburst (This artifact enters with a charge counter on it for each color of mana spent to cast it.), Sacrifice this artifact: Destroy each nonland permanent with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on this artifact.
How it works : Engineered Explosives
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
You can choose any value for X as you cast Engineered Explosives. The value chosen for X doesn't directly affect the number of charge counters Engineered Explosives enters the battlefield with, but it does let you pay more mana and thus spend more colors of mana to cast it.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
Colorless mana won't give Engineered Explosives another charge counter. Colorless is not a color.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
Tokens that aren't a copy of something else don't have a mana cost. Anything without a mana cost normally has a mana value of 0.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
If a permanent has
in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Emry, Lurker of the Loch + Jeskai Ascendancy + Barrage Ogre + Engineered Explosives
- 1Tap Barrage Ogre, sacrificing Engineered Explosives to deal 2 damage to any target.
- 2Tap Emry, targeting Engineered Explosives.
- 3Cast Engineered Explosives.
- 4Jeskai Ascendancy triggers, allowing you to loot.
- 5Jeskai Ascendancy triggers, untapping all creatures you control and giving them +1/+1 until end of turn.
- 6Repeat.
Emry, Lurker of the Loch + Jeskai Ascendancy + Embraal Gear-Smasher + Engineered Explosives
- 1Tap Embraal Gear-Smasher, sacrificing Engineered Explosives to deal 2 damage to each opponent.
- 2Tap Emry, targeting Engineered Explosives.
- 3Cast Engineered Explosives.
- 4Jeskai Ascendancy triggers, allowing you to loot.
- 5Jeskai Ascendancy triggers, untapping all creatures you control and giving them +1/+1 until end of turn.
- 6Repeat.
Emry, Lurker of the Loch + Jeskai Ascendancy + Orcish Vandal + Engineered Explosives
- 1Tap Orcish Vandal, sacrificing Engineered Explosives to deal 2 damage to any target.
- 2Tap Emry, targeting Engineered Explosives.
- 3Cast Engineered Explosives.
- 4Jeskai Ascendancy triggers, allowing you to loot.
- 5Jeskai Ascendancy triggers, untapping all creatures you control and giving them +1/+1 until end of turn.
- 6Repeat.
Cavalier of Dawn + Infinite Reflection + March of the Machines + Engineered Explosives
- 1Cast Engineered Explosives by paying
. - 2Engineered Explosives enters the battlefield as a copy of Cavalier of Dawn.
- 3Copy of Cavalier of Dawn enter-the-battlefield ability triggers, destroying itself and creating you a 3/3 Golem token.
- 4Copy of Cavalier of Dawn dies, triggering itself, returning Engineered Explosives from your graveyard to your hand.
- 5Repeat.
Emry, Lurker of the Loch + Jeskai Ascendancy + Orcish Mechanics + Engineered Explosives
- 1Tap Orcish Mechanics, sacrificing Engineered Explosives to deal 2 damage to any target.
- 2Tap Emry, targeting Engineered Explosives.
- 3Cast Engineered Explosives.
- 4Jeskai Ascendancy triggers, allowing you to loot.
- 5Jeskai Ascendancy triggers, untapping all creatures you control and giving them +1/+1 until end of turn.
- 6Repeat.
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