Banefire
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
ConfluxCON · #58
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 1.03 € · ★ 3.65 € · 2.02 $ · ★ 5.85 $
- Mana value
- 1
- Colour
- Red
Card 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.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- PredhLegal
- TimelessLegal
- 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
- Raymond Swanland
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2009-02-06
Flavour text
For Sarkhan Vol, the dragon is the purest expression of life's savage splendor.
Rulings
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.
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.
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.
