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Making the Cut - Narrowing Options - Red
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Qty: 24 Price: $58.22
Abrade

Choose one — • Abrade deals 3 damage to target creature. • Destroy target artifact.

Instant
Abrade (scd) 122
Bonfire of the Damned

Bonfire of the Damned deals X damage to target player or planeswalker and each creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls. Miracle {X}{R} (You may cast this card for its miracle cost when you draw it if it's the first card you drew this turn.)

Sorcery
Bonfire of the Damned (mm3) 91
By Force

Destroy X target artifacts.

Sorcery
By Force (akh) 123
Collective Defiance

Escalate {1} (Pay this cost for each mode chosen beyond the first.) Choose one or more — • Target player discards all the cards in their hand, then draws that many cards. • Collective Defiance deals 4 damage to target creature. • Collective Defiance deals 3 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.

Sorcery
Collective Defiance (emn) 123
Dire Fleet Daredevil

First strike When this creature enters, exile target instant or sorcery card from an opponent's graveyard. You may cast it this turn, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell. If that spell would be put into a graveyard, exile it instead.

Creature
Dire Fleet Daredevil (clb) 788
Divergent Transformations

Undaunted (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each opponent.) Exile two target creatures. For each of those creatures, its controller reveals cards from the top of their library until they reveal a creature card, puts that card onto the battlefield, then shuffles the rest into their library.

Instant
Divergent Transformations (c16) 17
Downhill Charge

You may sacrifice a Mountain rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Target creature gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the number of Mountains you control.

Instant
Downhill Charge (ddi) 69
Fall of the Titans

Surge {X}{R} (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.) Fall of the Titans deals X damage to each of up to two targets.

Instant
Fall of the Titans (plst) OGW-109
From the Ashes

Destroy all nonbasic lands. For each land destroyed this way, its controller may search their library for a basic land card and put it onto the battlefield. Then each player who searched their library this way shuffles.

Sorcery
From the Ashes (c13) 108
Goblin Welder

{T}: Choose target artifact a player controls and target artifact card in that player's graveyard. If both targets are still legal as this ability resolves, that player simultaneously sacrifices the artifact and returns the artifact card to the battlefield.

Creature
Goblin Welder (cm2) 101
Grab the Reins

Choose one — • Until end of turn, you gain control of target creature and it gains haste. • Sacrifice a creature. Grab the Reins deals damage equal to that creature's power to any target. Entwine {2}{R} (Choose both if you pay the entwine cost.)

Instant
Grab the Reins (c16) 126
Grapeshot

Grapeshot deals 1 damage to any target. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Sorcery
Grapeshot (dmr) 125
Ignite Memories

Target player reveals a card at random from their hand. Ignite Memories deals damage to that player equal to that card's mana value. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Sorcery
Ignite Memories (tsp) 164
Insult

Sorcery
Insult // Injury (akh) 213
Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs

Whenever a creature an opponent controls attacks, if you're the defending player, create a 3/3 red Ogre creature token unless that creature's controller pays {3}.

Creature
Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs (scd) 148
Liberating Combustion

Liberating Combustion deals 6 damage to target creature. You may search your library and/or graveyard for a card named Chandra, Pyrogenius, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.

Sorcery
Liberating Combustion (kld) 267
Oath of Chandra

When Oath of Chandra enters, it deals 3 damage to target creature an opponent controls. At the beginning of each end step, if a planeswalker entered the battlefield under your control this turn, Oath of Chandra deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Enchantment
Oath of Chandra (ogw) 113
Past in Flames

Each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. Flashback {4}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery
Past in Flames (mm3) 105
Price of Progress

Price of Progress deals damage to each player equal to twice the number of nonbasic lands that player controls.

Instant
Price of Progress (plst) EMA-141
Rack and Ruin

Destroy two target artifacts.

Instant
Rack and Ruin (ulg) 89
Seismic Strike

Seismic Strike deals damage to target creature equal to the number of Mountains you control.

Instant
Seismic Strike (ddi) 70
Smash

Destroy target artifact. Draw a card.

Instant
Smash (10e) 235
Volcanic Offering

Destroy target nonbasic land you don't control and target nonbasic land of an opponent's choice you don't control. Volcanic Offering deals 7 damage to target creature you don't control and 7 damage to target creature of an opponent's choice you don't control.

Instant
Volcanic Offering (cm2) 126
Volt Charge

Volt Charge deals 3 damage to any target. Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Instant
Volt Charge (one) 155

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Act on Impulse

Exile the top three cards of your library. Until end of turn, you may play those cards. (If you cast a spell this way, you still pay its costs. You can play a land this way only if you have an available land play remaining.)

Sorcery
Act on Impulse (j22) 492
Arcbond

Choose target creature. Whenever that creature is dealt damage this turn, it deals that much damage to each other creature and each player.

Instant
Arcbond (frf) 91
Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (scd) 124
Brass's Bounty

For each land you control, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Sorcery
Brass's Bounty (moc) 272
Chandra Ablaze

+1: Discard a card. If a red card is discarded this way, Chandra deals 4 damage to any target. −2: Each player discards their hand, then draws three cards. −7: Cast any number of red instant and/or sorcery cards from your graveyard without paying their mana costs.

Planeswalker
Chandra Ablaze (zen) 120
Chandra, Bold Pyromancer

+1: Add {R}{R}. Chandra deals 2 damage to target player. −3: Chandra deals 3 damage to target creature or planeswalker. −7: Chandra deals 10 damage to target player and each creature and planeswalker they control.

Planeswalker
Chandra, Bold Pyromancer (dom) 275
Chandra, Pyromaster

+1: Chandra deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker and 1 damage to up to one target creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls. That creature can't block this turn. 0: Exile the top card of your library. You may play it this turn. −7: Exile the top ten cards of your library. Choose an instant or sorcery card exiled this way and copy it three times. You may cast the copies without paying their mana costs.

Planeswalker
Chandra, Pyromaster (e01) 42
Chandra, the Firebrand

+1: Chandra deals 1 damage to any target. −2: When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. −6: Chandra deals 6 damage to each of up to six targets.

Planeswalker
Chandra, the Firebrand (m13) 123
Chandra, Torch of Defiance

+1: Exile the top card of your library. You may cast that card. If you don't, Chandra deals 2 damage to each opponent. +1: Add {R}{R}. −3: Chandra deals 4 damage to target creature. −7: You get an emblem with "Whenever you cast a spell, this emblem deals 5 damage to any target."

Planeswalker
Chandra, Torch of Defiance (kld) 110
Chaos Warp

The owner of target permanent shuffles it into their library, then reveals the top card of their library. If it's a permanent card, they put it onto the battlefield.

Instant
Chaos Warp (moc) 273
Char

Char deals 4 damage to any target and 2 damage to you.

Instant
Char (rav) 117
Daretti, Scrap Savant

+2: Discard up to two cards, then draw that many cards. −2: Sacrifice an artifact. If you do, return target artifact card from your graveyard to the battlefield. −10: You get an emblem with "Whenever an artifact is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, return that card to the battlefield at the beginning of the next end step." Daretti, Scrap Savant can be your commander.

Planeswalker
Daretti, Scrap Savant (plst) CM2-4
Earthquake

Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

Sorcery
Earthquake (cm2) 95
Fury Storm

When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you've cast your commander from the command zone this game. You may choose new targets for the copies. Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant
Fury Storm (c18) 22
Guttersnipe

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, this creature deals 2 damage to each opponent.

Creature
Guttersnipe (scd) 145
Howl of the Horde

When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. Raid — If you attacked this turn, when you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell an additional time. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Sorcery
Howl of the Horde (ktk) 112
Increasing Vengeance

Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, copy that spell twice instead. You may choose new targets for the copies. Flashback {3}{R}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant
Increasing Vengeance (c19) 147
Jaya Ballard

+1: Add {R}{R}{R}. Spend this mana only to cast instant or sorcery spells. +1: Discard up to three cards, then draw that many cards. −8: You get an emblem with "You may cast instant and sorcery spells from your graveyard. If a spell cast this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead."

Planeswalker
Jaya Ballard (c21) 175
Koth of the Hammer

+1: Untap target Mountain. It becomes a 4/4 red Elemental creature until end of turn. It's still a land. −2: Add {R} for each Mountain you control. −5: You get an emblem with "Mountains you control have '{T}: This land deals 1 damage to any target.'"

Planeswalker
Koth of the Hammer (ddi) 44
Light Up the Stage

Spectacle {R} (You may cast this spell for its spectacle cost rather than its mana cost if an opponent lost life this turn.) Exile the top two cards of your library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.

Sorcery
Light Up the Stage (clb) 802
Lightning Bolt

Lightning Bolt deals 3 damage to any target.

Instant
Lightning Bolt (2x2) 117
Mana Geyser

Add {R} for each tapped land your opponents control.

Sorcery
Mana Geyser (scd) 151
Mizzix's Mastery

Exile target card that's an instant or sorcery from your graveyard. For each card exiled this way, copy it, and you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost. Exile Mizzix's Mastery. Overload {5}{R}{R}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Sorcery
Mizzix's Mastery (plst) C15-29
Seething Song

Add {R}{R}{R}{R}{R}.

Instant
Seething Song (c21) 179
Starstorm

Starstorm deals X damage to each creature. Cycling {3} ({3}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Instant
Starstorm (j22) 607

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