Price$1.49 – $9.15
Buy on TCGplayerVandalblast
Sorcery
LegalRemovalRank #101
Destroy target artifact you don't control.
Overload 
(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
KeywordsOverload
Why is this card good?
Vandalblast is one of red's premier artifact answers and a near-auto-include in any red deck that wants flexible interaction. The magic is its flexibility: for early, it's spot removal for a problematic Sol Ring, Smothering Tithe, or combo piece. Later, the overload becomes a one-sided artifact board wipe — you destroy every artifact you don't control while keeping your own mana rocks and pieces intact. That asymmetry is huge in a format flooded with mana artifacts.
It's strongest against artifact-heavy tables: affinity/artifact decks, Urza, treasure-token strategies, and stax builds leaning on Winter Orb or Static Orb. Even at "fair" tables, the early single-target mode rarely sits dead.
Don't lean on it as your only stax/combo answer — it can't touch enchantments, creatures, or planeswalkers, and the overload is reactive (it won't stop a one-shot trigger). But the cost is so low and the upside so high that there's little reason to leave it home in a red deck.
early, it's spot removal for a problematic Sol Ring, Smothering Tithe, or combo piece. Later, the overload becomes a one-sided artifact board wipe — you destroy every artifact you don't control while keeping your own mana rocks and pieces intact. That asymmetry is huge in a format flooded with mana artifacts.
It's strongest against artifact-heavy tables: affinity/artifact decks, Urza, treasure-token strategies, and stax builds leaning on Winter Orb or Static Orb. Even at "fair" tables, the early single-target mode rarely sits dead.
Don't lean on it as your only stax/combo answer — it can't touch enchantments, creatures, or planeswalkers, and the overload is reactive (it won't stop a one-shot trigger). But the cost is so low and the upside so high that there's little reason to leave it home in a red deck.Related cards
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Printings (16)
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Played by these commanders
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Combos (1)
- Mycosynth Lattice + Vandalblast
→ Mass Land Denial, Destroy all permanents opponents control