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Puncture Blast

Magic: The GatheringEventide#60

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Magic: The Gathering

Mana cost

EventideEVE · #60

Card type: Instant
Rarity: Common
Indicative price: 0.12 € · ★ 0.44 € · 0.21 $ · ★ 0.75 $
Mana value: 3
Colour: Red

Card text

Wither (This deals damage to creatures in the form of -1/-1 counters.) Puncture Blast deals 3 damage to any target.

Format legality

CommanderLegal
DuelLegal
LegacyLegal
ModernLegal
OathbreakerLegal
PauperLegal
PaupercommanderLegal
PennyLegal
PredhLegal
VintageLegal

Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).

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Printing information

Illustrator: Carl Critchlow
Card language: English
Release date: 2008-07-25

Flavour text

Gnarltrunk didn't remember having quite that many knotholes.

Rulings

2008-08-01

This is the only instant or sorcery spell that has wither. It works like anything else with wither: If it deals damage to a creature, the damage results in -1/-1 counters; if it deals damage to a player or planeswalker, the damage behaves normally.