#delayed blast fireball

[niuttuc]

Since yesterday’s was a bonus, today’s recent budget commander sleeper is a double feature... Mostly using the latter being recent to be able to talk about the former. Some underrated red board wipes!

Red has plenty of damaging board wipes, but the vast majority of them hit everyone equally. These two break the symmetry somewhat, and the cascade on them adds a lot of value.

I tend to prefer Volcanic Torrent, as it’s fully one-sided, letting your board through unscathed. Five mana, the floor on it is to draw a card, cast it for free, and then deal 2 damage to everything you don’t control, cleaning out tokens and utilty creatures. Since Cascade happens before the spell resolve, and it counts itself, it’ll never see you having cast less than two spells. If you can just cast a single spell before casting it, it gets into the really useful category. Before combat, it’ll also make blocks with larger creatures inconvenient and after combat it can clean off bigger creatures. And you get a free spell attached to it!

Let the Galaxy Burn is more expensive and will also hit your own board, but has the advantage that it’s more easily scalable without having to use more cards, since you can just pump more mana in. But otherwise it’ll do a fine job.

Being one-sided is kind of a huge deal for board wipes, just see how expensive and back breaking a In Garruk’s Wake or a Cyclonic Rift can be.There’s not many options for it that deal more than one measly damage, and if your deck is a typical casual deck, the cascade will often add an average of three mana worth of value onto them, making them much more appealing.

Of course, neither of them hold a candle to the most powerful of the recent one-sided red board wipes, Delayed Blast Fireball, but they’re a fraction of the monetary cost and good enough.

I’d encourage you to try the fireball too though if you haven’t seen it yet and have the five bucks or so it’s currently worth. It’s pretty great in basically any deck, and if it isn’t reprinted, it might get very expensive in the coming years. Assuming they don’t print anything even stronger, of course. Surprise triple feature!

[afinickyguide]

episode thirty: delayed blast fireball 🥃🔥✨

[dndspelloftheday]

Day 37: Delayed Blast Fireball

Delayed Blast Fireball is a 7th-level evocation spell that can be found in the Player's Handbook. It can be cast by sorcerers and wizards.

Casting Time: 1 action Range: 150 feet Components: V, S, M (a tiny ball of bat guano and sulfur) Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute

A beam of yellow light flashes from your pointing finger, then condenses to linger at a chosen point within range as a glowing bead for the duration. When the spell ends, either because your concentration is broken or because you decide to end it, the bead blossoms with a low roar into an explosion of flame that spreads around corners. Each creature in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on that point must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes fire damage equal to the total accumulated damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

The spell’s base damage is 12d6. If at the end of your turn the bead has not yet detonated, the damage increases by 1d6.

If the glowing bead is touched before the interval has expired, the creature touching it must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the spell ends immediately, causing the bead to erupt in flame. On a successful save, the creature can throw the bead up to 40 feet. When it strikes a creature or a solid object, the spell ends, and the bead explodes. The fire damages objects in the area and ignites flammable objects that aren’t being worn or carried.

At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 8th level or higher, the base damage increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 7th.

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Delayed Blast Fireball (Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate) - Andreas Zafiratos

More cards with art by Andreas Zafiratos on Scryfall

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Dnd Spells: Delayed Blast Fireball

Delayed Blast Fireball is a level 7 Evocation spell for Sorcerer and Wizard. Casting Time is 1 action Range is 150 feet Requires a Verbal and Somatic Component spell ingredient is a ball of bat guano and sulfur Duration is Concentration up to 1 minute.

A beam of yellow light flashes from you, then condenses at a chosen point within range as a glowing bead for the duration. When the spell ends, the bead explodes, and each creature in a 20-foot-radius Sphere centered on that point makes a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes Fire damage equal to the total accumulated damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.

The spell’s base damage is 12d6, and the damage increases by 1d6 whenever your turn ends and the spell hasn’t ended.

If a creature touches the glowing bead before the spell ends, that creature makes a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the spell ends, causing the bead to explode. On a successful save, the creature can throw the bead up to 40 feet. If the thrown bead enters a creature’s space or collides with a solid object, the spell ends, and the bead explodes.

When the bead explodes, flammable objects in the explosion that aren’t being worn or carried start burning.

Using a Higher-Level Spell Slot: The base damage increases by 1d6 for each spell slot level above 7.