Bottle-Cap Blast
Instant
Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for 
.)
Bottle-Cap Blast deals 5 damage to any target. If excess damage was dealt to a permanent this way, create that many tapped Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "
, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Fallout
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #4032
Bottle-Cap Blast deals 4 damage to each creature and planeswalker for two mana if you discard a Treasure — a sweeper-efficient rate that rivals premium removal in the right shell. Magda, Brazen Outlaw decks run it in over half their lists because Treasures are free fuel, turning this into a one-sided board clear more often than not.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Magda, Brazen Outlaw
Magda, Brazen Outlaw generates Treasures through normal combat, so Bottle-Cap Blast is almost always live as a two-mana sweeper that clears blockers and leaves your Dwarves standing above 4 toughness.
Knuckles the Echidna
Knuckles the Echidna cares about artifacts entering and leaving play, and pitching a Treasure to Bottle-Cap Blast triggers that loop while wiping the board clean of small threats.
Vihaan, Goldwaker
Vihaan, Goldwaker animates Treasures into attackers, so the supply of pitchable artifacts is constant — Bottle-Cap Blast slots in as the deck's cheapest interactive sweeper without taxing the mana base.
Liberty Prime, Recharged
Liberty Prime, Recharged leans on artifact tokens and high-impact instants, and Bottle-Cap Blast does both jobs at once: it recycles a Treasure and answers creature boards at instant speed.
Dr. Madison Li
Dr. Madison Li tutors and recycles artifacts, making the Treasure discard cost trivially easy to meet and letting Bottle-Cap Blast double as both removal and an incidental artifact expenditure trigger.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Bottle-Cap Blast is a Commander card through and through — the Treasure discard condition is only reliably met in a format where dedicated artifact-token engines like Magda, Brazen Outlaw, Revel in Riches, and Smothering Tithe are commonplace. In Legacy and Vintage it's technically legal but sees no meaningful play; four damage at sorcery speed doesn't compete with the format's interaction density, and the discard cost is a real drawback when you're not building around Treasures. Oathbreaker can support it in the same artifact-token shells that Commander does, so it's worth a slot there if your planeswalker enables the engine. Everywhere else it's either banned or simply outclassed.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Bottle-Cap Blast isn't available at the moment, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate before buying in. Given its narrow home in Treasure-token Commander builds and a 51% inclusion rate in Magda lists, demand is real but concentrated — it's unlikely to be expensive outside of foil treatments.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Magda, Brazen Outlaw
- Knuckles the Echidna
- Vihaan, Goldwaker
- Liberty Prime, Recharged
- Dr. Madison Li
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.