I decided to check on the Magic TCG Reddit thread again for a few card speculations for War of the Spark and found one that looked to be quite useful for the older formats. Check out the English text of this preview card, Explosion Zone.

Explosion Zone enters the battlefield with 1 counter

Tap: Add colorless mana

XX, tap: put X counter over explosion zone

3, tap: sacrifice explosion zone: destroy all nonland permanents with converted cost equal to the number of counters on explosion zone.

A built-in boardwipe on a land is already a strong feature of this card, given that it can returned by spells like Life from the Loam for another round. What justifies my statement of this card being useful in older Formats like Modern is that the etb effect of having one counter. That is already enough to deal with relevant early threats such as weenie one-drops of most aggro decks.

Another deck that can benefit to it well is obviously the Tron-based decks as the colorless mana would not matter and paying for the X cost can be handled once they have assembled the trifecta lands.

As for its Standard use, one or two copies for Blue White or Blue Black control decks so it can’t affect the mana base and also to give more option to handle the board while dealing with random artifacts or enchantments.

Overall, the card rating would be around 8/10 as per its use in various formats. That is a wrap, until the next blog post.