Fated Firepower 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
Flash This enchantment enters with X fire counters on it. If a source you control would deal damage to an opponent or a permanent an opponent controls, it deals that much damage plus an amount of damage equal to the number of fire counters on this enchantment instead.
Complete guide
Fated Firepower is a high-impact enchantment that allows you to weaponize your mana into a permanent damage boost. By entering the battlefield with fire counters, it ensures that every subsequent source of damage you control hits significantly harder.
Scaling Your Damage
Fated Firepower features a replacement effect that modifies damage as it is dealt. Because it has Flash, you can cast it in response to a spell or during combat to surprise an opponent with extra lethality. The bonus damage is equal to the number of fire counters placed on it when cast, meaning the more mana you invest into X, the more explosive your board becomes.
Resolution and Calculation
When a source you control deals damage, you apply the bonus after the damage is initially divided or assigned. If you are dealing damage to multiple targets at once, each instance of damage receives the full bonus from the fire counters. Importantly, the additional damage is dealt by the original source, not Fated Firepower itself; this means if a creature with Lifelink deals damage, the extra damage from the counters also results in you gaining life.
Interaction with Damage Prevention
If an effect would prevent or modify damage alongside Fated Firepower, the player being dealt damage (or the controller of the permanent being hit) chooses the order in which these replacement effects apply. If a prevention effect reduces the damage to zero before Fated Firepower applies, the bonus damage is lost because there is no longer a damage event to modify.
Interaction examples
Impact TremorsIf you have Fated Firepower on the battlefield with three fire counters and a creature enters under your control, Impact Tremors triggers. Instead of dealing its usual 1 damage to each opponent, the replacement effect increases that damage by 3. Each opponent will take 4 damage instead of 1.
Underworld BreachIf Fated Firepower is in your graveyard, you can use Underworld Breach to cast it for its escape cost. Since X is part of the mana cost, you can still pay any amount for X while escaping it. This allows you to reset the number of fire counters on the battlefield if a previous copy was destroyed or if you simply have more mana to spend.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Fated Firepower
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
The additional damage is dealt by the same source as the original source of damage.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
If another effect modifies how much damage your source would deal, including preventing some of it, the player being dealt damage or the controller of the permanent being dealt damage chooses an order in which to apply those effects. If all of the damage is prevented, Fated Firepower's effect no longer applies.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
If damage dealt by a source you control is being divided or assigned among multiple permanents an opponent controls or among an opponent and one or more permanents they control, divide the original amount before adding the number of fire counters on Fated Firepower. For example, if you control Fated Firepower with two fire counters on it, attack with a 5/5 creature with trample, and your opponent blocks with a 2/2 creature, you can assign 2 damage to the blocker and 3 damage to the defending player. These amounts are then both modified to 4 and 5 respectively.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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