Blast of Genius
Sorcery
DGMDragon's Maze#55uncommon
Foil
Ral Zarek's brainstorms bring actual thunder and lightning.
- Border
- black
- Frame
- 2003
- Pull rate
- about 1 per booster–1 in 711
- Illustrator
- Terese Nielsen
- Found in
- Dragons Maze MTGO Redemption · Dragons Maze MTGO Redemption Foil · 2 more
CommanderLegalModernLegalStandardNot legal
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlNot legal
CommanderLegal
Competitive BrawlNot legal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorNot legal
HistoricNot legal
LegacyLegal
ModernLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
PennyLegal
PioneerLegal
PreDHNot legal
PremodernNot legal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Tiny LeadersNot legal
VintageLegal
Choose any target. Draw three cards, then discard a card. Blast of Genius deals damage equal to the discarded card's mana value to that permanent or player.
Plays as: Card Draw · Looting
Market · per finishspark updated 20m ago · prices as of 2026-07-12
Nonfoil-7.7%
$0.12
$0.01 low$0.00 gap
Foil-2.9%
$0.34
$0.19 low$0.03 gap
Finish
Market
Δ 7D · Trend
Low
Buylist
Buy / Sell Gap
Nonfoil
$0.12as of 2026-07-12
-7.7%
H $0.14L $0.02since Feb 2024$0.01
$0.01
$0.000% · normal spread
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Foil
$0.34as of 2026-07-12
-2.9%
H $0.69L $0.25since Feb 2024$0.19
$0.16
$0.03+16% · normal spread
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Cheapest playable copy$0.09· across 3 printings
Rulings
2 · latest Dec 7, 2018 · one tap opens all
- WotCDec 7, 2018
If a discarded card has
in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0. - WotCDec 7, 2018
If the target permanent or player becomes an illegal target for Blast of Genius, the spell doesn’t resolve. You don’t draw or discard any cards.