Price$5.16 – $25.64
Buy on TCGplayerChandra's Ignition
Sorcery
LegalRank #485
Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to each other creature and each opponent.
Why is this card good?
Chandra's Ignition is one of red's best board wipes precisely because it's so asymmetrical and flexible. You point it at your fattest creature, kill every other creature on the board, and hit each opponent in the face for the same amount. Slap it on a 7-power attacker and you've wiped the table while dealing 7 to each opponent — that's a third of their starting life gone.
The synergy ceiling is high. With lifelink or deathtouch on your chosen creature, the damage gains those keywords too: lifelink gains you a pile of life, deathtouch obliterates indestructible/big threats regardless of toughness. It shines in big-creature voltron, Gruul beatdown, and any deck running a hexproof or indestructible bomb that survives its own blast.
Best in decks built around a single resilient threat — commanders like Korvold, Xenagos, or any large lifelink creature.
Skip it in go-wide token decks (it kills your own board) or if your creatures are small; 2-3 power makes it a weak, overcosted wipe.
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Combos with Ignition to redirect creature damage to opponents.
Printings (9)
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Played by these commanders
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Rulings (3)
- 2015-06-22
The creature is the source of the damage, not Chandra's Ignition. For example, Chandra's Ignition can have a white creature deal damage to a creature with protection from red.
- 2015-06-22
Use the power of the target creature as Chandra's Ignition resolves to determine how much damage it deals to each other creature and each opponent.
- 2015-06-22
If the creature becomes an illegal target by the time Chandra's Ignition tries to resolve (perhaps because another player controls it or it's left the battlefield), Chandra's Ignition won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. No damage will be dealt.