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Banefire

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Banefire

Legal

Type line

Sorcery

Oracle text

Banefire deals X damage to any target. If X is 5 or more, this spell can't be countered and the damage can't be prevented.

Rulings

  • To determine whether it can be countered and its damage can be prevented, Banefire checks the number you chose for X, not the amount of mana you actually spent or the amount of damage it will actually deal.2018-07-13
  • If its target is illegal by the time Banefire tries to resolve, the spell isn’t countered, but it doesn’t resolve. The target won’t be dealt damage.2018-07-13
  • Banefire can be targeted by spells that try to counter it regardless of what the value of X is. If X is 5 or more, those spells will still resolve, but the part of their effect that would counter Banefire won’t do anything. Any other effects those spells have will work as normal.2018-07-13

Market price

$0.79

Commanders that play this card

Use over time

1 public deck with Banefire saved in the last 12 weeks, by the week each was last saved. Approximate: a deck counts in the week it was saved, not every week it held the card.

Jul 6This week

Often played with

Across the 1 public deck that plays Banefire. That's a thin sample — treat these as observations, not staples.

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