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Engineered Explosives
Fifth Dawn Rare
Reviewed May 24, 2004
Constructed: 2.9
Casual: 2.8
Limited: 3
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Chris
Gerhardt
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game store owner in CA,
ShuffleAndCut |
So it's a
multicolored colorless gets a
Pernicious Deed or
Powder Keg. Deed and Keg are great
cards, and pretty hard for us to keep in stock.
Explosives is already attracting high interest
from our customers, and considering all that, I'm
predicting that explosives will be a sought after
card. In
casual, it's a fun card, but I'm not sure if it's
snazzy enough. It's definitely an excellent
card. It will just depend on the type of
deck builder Joe Casual is. In group games,
this could cause quite a stir...sure, it could
have a huge potential to off a LOT of stuff.
But you will also probably draw the attention and
ire of a lot of players who might just turn on
you. In
limited, it's destruction, and if you're going
multicolor, it's an auto include.
Constructed:
4
Casual: 2.5
Limited: 4
Current Price:
Engineered
Explosives -
Fifth Dawn - $10.00
Similar to:
Pernicious
Deed -
Apocalypse - $14.93
Powder Keg -
Urza's Destiny - $7.34
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Judge
Bill
*Level 2
MTG Judge
*game store employee
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A good Pernicious
Deed type card. Good for sweeping tokens, or
against any deck that has a high percentage of
its permanents at a given casting cost. The only
deck this would seem like this would be good
against these days though (that you can get) is
goblins. It might be good against MWC, but I
would think you would have better choices.
This will get played
in casual, before being put back in favor of
Nev's Disk.
A good card to have
in limited, as decks tend to bunch a lot of
permanents among the 2-4 converted mana cost
slots.
Constructed: 3.5
Casual: 2.5
Limited: 4
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Ray
"Monk"
Powers
* Level 3 DCI Judge
*DCI Tournament Organizer
*Game Store Owner (Gamer's Edge) |
Engineered Explosives
There’s been a lot of
Engineered Explosives talk so far, and people are
talking about it as a big sideboard card/control
card. Am I the only person who sees the keyword
Sunburst on there? It definitely has some possible
uses in general, but by its nature it requires
people to play multicolor decks, or be forced to
use it for only one or two at the most, limiting
its effectiveness. It will be good against Goblin
decks, provided they don’t have the Bidding even
with mono/dual color decks, but it also can’t ever
be used for zero, which weakens it again. In
short, I can see it having a lot of play in casual
five color formats, but that’s about it.
Constructed:
2
Casual:
4
Limited:
1
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DeQuan
Watson
* game store owner (The Game Closet - Waco,TX)
* pro tour player
* Scrye writer since 2002 |
Engineered
Explosives
I can't say that I'm
a fan of this card. Nevinyrral's Disk,
Pernicious Deed, and even Powder Keg were all
really good. But this card is none of those.
You have to be playing at least three colors to
give yourself some real options. With all that
being said, I don't think it's terrible. It's
just a poor replacement for these other cards.
It's so situational in limited play that there's
no way I could say how good it is for the
format.
Constructed: 2
Casual: 1
Limited: 2
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Jeff Zandi
5 Time Pro Tour
Veteran
Level 2 Judge |
Engineered Explosives
This card has some advantages over Powder Keg, but
overall is less powerful
than Powder Keg. Now that I've seen the entire
Fifth Dawn set and played
with it a little bit, I can confidently state that
most limited decks will
not have access to four or five colors, that means
that Engineered
Explosives will only enter play with one to three
counters. Designers were
careful not to allow this card to destroy lands,
so playing it with
colorless mana for zero counters will not
generally be useful. The good news
is that this newly engineered version of Powder
Keg is certainly
more.explosive. More explosive because it can
easily be played and used on
the same turn in the mid or late game. A very good
card overall. I don't
like constructed decks with more than two colors,
normally, so I can't get
too excited about this card's usefulness in
constructed play.
CONSTRUCTED: 3.0
CASUAL: 4.0
LIMITED: 4.0
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