Exploding Borders
Conflux (CON) #106 · Common · Sorcery
Mana cost: {2}{R}{G}
Domain — Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Exploding Borders deals X damage to target player or planeswalker, where X is the number of basic land types among lands you control.
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Illustrated by Zoltan Boros & Gabor Szikszai · Released February 6, 2009
Prices
- Nonfoil: $0.25 USD · €0.10 EUR
- Foil: $0.23 USD · €0.17 EUR
Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: up $0.05 USD (25.0%) to $0.25 USD; low $0.20 USD, high $0.25 USD.
Printings
- Conflux #106 (this printing) · Common · 2009 · $0.25 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Not legal
- Historic: Not legal
- Modern: Legal
- Brawl: Not legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Not legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2009-02-01 · wotc — Exploding Borders will still deal damage even if you don't put a land card onto the battlefield.
- 2009-02-01 · wotc — You do what the spell says in order, so you'll put a new basic land card onto the battlefield before you determine the value of X.
- 2009-02-01 · wotc — Exploding Borders has only one target: the player. If that player becomes an illegal target by the time Exploding Borders would resolve, the entire spell doesn't resolve. You won't get to search for a basic land card.
- 2021-06-18 · wotc — The basic land types are Plains, Island, Swamp, Mountain, and Forest. Land types other than basic land types (such as Desert) don't contribute to domain abilities.
- 2021-06-18 · wotc — Domain abilities count the number of basic land types among lands you control, not how many lands you control or how many of any type.