Blazing Torch

Innistrad (ISD) #216 · Common · Artifact — Equipment

Mana cost: {1}

Equipped creature can't be blocked by Vampires or Zombies.
Equipped creature has "{T}, Sacrifice Blazing Torch: Blazing Torch deals 2 damage to any target."
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)

Illustrated by Scott Chou · Released September 30, 2011

Prices

Nonfoil price since August 25, 2026: down $0.02 USD (25.0%) to $0.06 USD; low $0.06 USD, high $0.08 USD.

Printings

  1. Innistrad Remastered #254 (INR) · Common · 2025 · $0.13 USD
  2. Shadows of the Past #69 (SIS) · Common · 2023
  3. Innistrad #216 (this printing) · Common · 2011 · $0.06 USD
  4. Zendikar #197 (ZEN) · Uncommon · 2009 · $0.08 USD

Legality

Rulings

  1. 2009-10-01 · wotc — If a Blazing Torch controlled by one player somehow winds up equipping a creature a different player controls, the damage ability can’t be activated by either player. Only the creature’s controller may activate the ability — but since that player can’t sacrifice Blazing Torch (a permanent they don’t control), the ability’s cost can’t be paid.
  2. 2009-10-01 · wotc — The source of the damage is Blazing Torch, not the equipped creature. However, the equipped creature’s ability is what targets the permanent or player. If Blazing Torch is equipped to a red creature, for example, the ability couldn’t target a creature with protection from red. It could target a creature with protection from artifacts, but all the damage would be prevented.

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