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Engineered Explosives

Card Name

Engineered Explosives

Mana Cost

X

Type

Artifact

Rarity

Special

rules Text

Sunburst
2
, Sacrifice Engineered Explosives: Destroy each nonland permanent with converted mana cost equal to the number of charge counters on Engineered Explosives.

Legal Formats

Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage

Not Legal Formats

Alchemy, Brawl, Explorer, Historic, Pauper, Pioneer, Standard

Rulings

(8/7/2020)
You can choose any value for X as you cast Engineered Explosives. The value chosen for X doesn't directly affect the number of charge counters Engineered Explosives enters the battlefield with, but it does let you pay more mana and thus spend more colors of mana to cast it.
(8/7/2020)
Colorless mana won't give Engineered Explosives another charge counter. Colorless is not a color.
(8/7/2020)
Tokens that aren't a copy of something else don't have a mana cost. Anything without a mana cost normally has a mana value of 0.
(8/7/2020)
If a permanent has
X
 in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.