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CardName: Cinder Blast Cost: 3R Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Destroy target colorless permanent. You may search your library for a Mountain card, reveal it and put it in your hand, then shuffle your library. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Verdia Uncommon |
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I thought this was beautifully simple and still within red's colour pie.
Reminiscent of Vivid Rejection, though obviously a bit more pushed.
Oh yes. It seems that although I loved Cinder Blast when I first saw it, I'd forgotten about this six-year-old card when I saw Vivid Rejection. I'm glad to have finally got Verdia imported to Multiverse, because Fallingman had so many nifty ideas in this set.
Personally I don't think they would do it in red. Besides land searching not being red, that color formally only destroys artifact and lands, and for that Demolish does the job well enough. I don't like red having a "destroy" effect that can hit anything even if that requires Moonlace. I've used that effect myself, but I put it in Green: Lock // Load, Reject Structures.
If you don't like red having destroy effects that can hit anything with the help of other cards, you must be gutted about Shatter, thanks to Liquimetal Coating / Ashnod's Transmogrant / Mycosynth Lattice / Argent Mutation / Neurok Transmuter / Karn's Touch / ...
And Stone Rain must be at least on the watchlist, thanks to Song of the Dryads / Life and Limb+Conspiracy/Imagecrafter/Unnatural Selection.
Hm. Now I'm not sure. I think it's really clever the way "colorless" is just a small generalisation of lands and artifacts that red can usually hit. But somehow, it feels to me like red's destruction is "only" whereas green's is "all except", so it feels strange that red gets to round up to include Karn Planeswalker and Eldrazi even though it won't make a practical difference.
But that's just a vague feeling, I suspect other people have the opposite impression.
For what it's worth, I'd be against this card being included in a heavy morph block. Red can Shock morphs all it likes, but it shouldn't be using the word "destroy" on creatures normally (except for Molten Frame). But in this block, face-down cards are lands, making them fair game for red to blow them up.
Oh yes, morphs. That would have been a better example for me to give :) And yes, that does make this make more sense to me. But OTOH, if it doesn't gain anything over "destroy target artifact or land" then maybe it doesn't need it?