Artillery Blast
Instant
Domain — Artillery Blast deals X damage to target tapped creature, where X is 1 plus the number of basic land types among lands you control.
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Dominaria United
- Price
- $0.12
- EDHREC rank
- #24984
Artillery Blast deals 2 damage to a creature or planeswalker for two mana, and the battalion rider can push it to 4 — enough to matter in combat-heavy boards. It's a serviceable limited combat trick that rarely makes the cut in constructed formats where unconditional removal is cheap and plentiful.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Artillery Blast is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Pioneer, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but the formats where it sees any real play are narrow. In Pauper, where the card pool is commons-only, Artillery Blast competes with Shock and Lightning Bolt — and it loses that fight unless battalion is live. In Commander, two damage at instant speed is rarely enough to change a board state at 40 life, and the battalion condition is nearly impossible to engineer reliably in a singleton format. Across Modern and Pioneer, far more efficient removal exists at the same cost.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.12 bulk tier
At $0.12, Artillery Blast is deep bulk — the kind of card you find in a draft chaff box, not a buy list. There's no meaningful demand driver that would move this price, so it's stable only in the way disposable commons are stable.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.