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Volcanic Eruption
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Volcanic Eruption

rare · Sorcery · 30th Anniversary Edition
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Oracle Text

Destroy X target Mountains. Volcanic Eruption deals damage to each creature and each player equal to the number of Mountains put into a graveyard this way.

Card Details

-/-Power / Toughness
{X}{U}{U}{U}Mana Cost
1Prints

Character Background

Volcanic Eruption is a strikingly old-school blue sorcery that plays like a control finisher with a very particular kind of hate: it punishes red mana bases while turning those ruined Mountains into a sweeping board-and-face burst. In practice, it best supports a control plan, especially in a metagame where red decks lean heavily on basic Mountains or nonbasic lands with Mountain types. The X in the cost makes it flexible, letting you scale the damage from a modest tempo swing to a devastating reset if you can target several Mountains at once. Deckbuilding-wise, pair it with mana acceleration and long-game card draw so you can hit triple blue reliably and survive until the payoff; land recursion or bounce effects can also help you repeatedly tax greedy mana bases. Against opponents who rely on Mountains for both mana and creature utility, it can function as a brutal one-card swing that clears blockers and closes the game.

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Character Background

Volcanic Eruption is a strikingly old-school blue sorcery that plays like a control finisher with a very particular kind of hate: it punishes red mana bases while turning those ruined Mountains into a sweeping board-and-face burst. In practice, it best supports a control plan, especially in a metagame where red decks lean heavily on basic Mountains or nonbasic lands with Mountain types. The X in the cost makes it flexible, letting you scale the damage from a modest tempo swing to a devastating reset if you can target several Mountains at once. Deckbuilding-wise, pair it with mana acceleration and long-game card draw so you can hit triple blue reliably and survive until the payoff; land recursion or bounce effects can also help you repeatedly tax greedy mana bases. Against opponents who rely on Mountains for both mana and creature utility, it can function as a brutal one-card swing that clears blockers and closes the game.

Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-21 20:20:42 UTC

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