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Scorched Earth
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Mana cost
TempestTMP · #200
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.59 € · 0.72 $
- Mana value
- 1
- Colour
- Red
Card text
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X land cards. Destroy X target lands.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PredhLegal
- PremodernLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Nicola Leonard
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 1997-10-14
Flavour text
"Fire cleanses as well as destroys; that is the nature of change." —Oracle *en*-Vec
Rulings
X can be zero to destroy no lands.
