Scorched Earth

Scorched Earth

Sorcery

Mana cost: {X}{R}

How we read this card

As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard X land cards.

on-cast —

Destroy X target lands.

on-cast —

Causes: discard a land, a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield.

Cares about: nothing.

Works well with

a land is discarded — 69 cards in the game can cause this (Scorched Earth is one).

When a land makes a player discard a card thanks to Scorched Earth:

  1. Bone Miser — adds 2 mana
  2. Surly Badgersaur — makes a token
  3. Green Goblin, Nemesis — makes a token
  4. Doctor Doom, King of Latveria — makes each opponent lose 2 life
  5. Invasion of Kaldheim // Pyre of the World Tree — exiles a card from your library

2 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a land in a graveyard — 634 cards in the game can cause this (Scorched Earth is one).

Scorched Earth puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Slogurk, the Overslime — can bring back
  2. Zask, Skittering Swarmlord — can bring back
  3. Glacierwood Siege — can bring back
  4. Turntimber Sower — can bring back
  5. Dredger's Insight — can bring back
  6. Bramble Familiar // Fetch Quest — can bring back
  7. Serra Paragon — can bring back
  8. Muldrotha, the Gravetide — can bring back
  9. Deadbridge Chant — can bring back
  10. Invasion of Tolvada // The Broken Sky — can bring back

121 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield — 636 cards in the game can cause this (Scorched Earth is one).

When a land is put into a graveyard from the battlefield thanks to Scorched Earth:

  1. Vastwood Zendikon — brings a card back
  2. Nissa's Zendikon — brings a card back
  3. Corrupted Zendikon — brings a card back
  4. Guardian Zendikon — brings a card back
  5. Crusher Zendikon — brings a card back
  6. Wind Zendikon — brings a card back
  7. Akki Raider — gets +1/+0
  8. Dingus Egg — deals 2 damage
  9. Genju of the Realm — returns itself from the graveyard

1 other card cares about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a land goes to a graveyard — 683 cards in the game can cause this (Scorched Earth is one).

When a card hits the graveyard thanks to Scorched Earth:

  1. The Gitrog Monster — draws you 1 card
  2. Skola Grovedancer — gains you 1 life
  3. Sand Scout — makes a token
  4. Crawling Sensation — makes a token
  5. Countryside Crusher — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself

6 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card is discarded — 2,042 cards in the game can cause this (Scorched Earth is one).

When a land makes a player discard a card thanks to Scorched Earth:

  1. Ivora, Insatiable Heir — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Cool but Rude — deals 2 damage
  3. Containment Construct — brings a card back
  4. Moonstone, Harsh Mistress — brings a card back
  5. Lazotep Chancellor — puts 2 counters on a Zombie or Army
  6. Magmakin Artillerist — deals that much damage
  7. Inti, Seneschal of the Sun — exiles a card from your library
  8. Pitchstone Wall — sacrifices itself
  9. Currency Converter — exiles it
  10. Hostile Investigator — triggers

51 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a sorcery is cast — 3,720 cards in the game can cause this (Scorched Earth is one).

When Scorched Earth is cast:

  1. Spellweaver Volute — copies a spell
  2. Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
  3. Niblis of Frost — gets +1/+1
  4. Primeval Bounty — puts 3 counters on a creature
  5. Tetsuko Umezawa, Pursuer — gets +1/+1
  6. Thor, God of Thunder — deals that spell's mana value damage
  7. Blood Funnel — sacrifices a creature

427 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Scorched Earth is one).

Scorched Earth puts cards into the graveyard that:

  1. Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — can bring back
  2. Harness the Storm — can bring back

442 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.