Exploding Borders

set	min	mtgo
-	0.32	0.03 tix

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Name	Exploding Borders
Type	Sorcery
Description	Domain — Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Exploding Borders deals X damage to target player or planeswalker, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control.
Flavor	Reuniting a world is not a gentle process.
Artist	Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai
Set	Conflux #106
Wallpaper	download
Image	download

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About Exploding Borders

Exploding Borders, Sorcery, designed by Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai first released in Feb, 2009 in the set Conflux. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of 0.32.

A deck that focuses on ramping up its mana base and controlling the board with various basic land types would benefit from including Exploding Borders. However, there are other cards like Skyshroud Claim or Circuitous Route that offer similar land ramp abilities without the damage component, making them potentially more efficient choices depending on the deck's strategy. Whether Exploding Borders should see play would ultimately depend on the specific deck's needs and how well it synergizes with the overall game plan.

Rules

03/19/21

The basic land types are Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest. Land types other than basic land types (such as Desert) don’t contribute to domain abilities.

02/01/09

A number of nonbasic lands have basic land types. Domain abilities don’t count the number of lands you control — they count the number of basic land types among lands you control, even if that means checking the same land twice. For example, if you control a Tundra, an Overgrown Tomb, and a Madblind Mountain, you’ll have a Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest among the lands you control. Your domain abilities will be maxed out.

02/01/09

Exploding Borders has only one target: the player. If that player becomes an illegal target by the time Exploding Borders would resolve, the entire spell doesn’t resolve. You won’t get to search for a basic land card.

02/01/09

Exploding Borders will still deal damage even if you don’t put a land card onto the battlefield.

02/01/09

To determine the number of basic land types among lands you control, look at the lands you have on the battlefield and ask yourself whether the subtypes Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest appear within that group. The number of times you say yes (topping out at five) tells you how powerful your domain abilities will be.

02/01/09

You do what the spell says in order, so you’ll put a new basic land card onto the battlefield before you determine the value of X.

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