Molten Collapse
Mana Cost:
Type: Sorcery
Oracle Text:
Choose one. If you descended this turn, you may choose both instead. (You descended if a permanent card was put into your graveyard from anywhere.)
• Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
• Destroy target noncreature, nonland permanent with mana value 1 or less.
Power/Toughness: -/-
Rarity: rare
Prints: View all prints (1) →
Expansion: The Lost Caverns of Ixalan
Price ( USD): $0.27
USD: $0.27 · EUR: €0.48
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Character Background
Molten Collapse is a clean, brutal two-mana answer that fits best in black-red tempo or midrange shells, where efficient interaction matters more than raw card advantage. At baseline, it trades up by killing a creature or planeswalker, and against low-curve strategies it can also pick off an important noncreature permanent with mana value 1 or less—think mana rocks, equipment, or key utility pieces. Its real ceiling comes from descending: if you’ve put a permanent card into your graveyard this turn, it becomes a flexible two-for-one, letting you remove both a threat and a supporting permanent in the same turn. That makes it especially strong in decks with fetch lands, self-mill, sacrifice outlets, or expendable permanents that naturally hit the graveyard. In Ixalan’s cavern-diving context, the card feels like a violent cave-in—sudden, punishing, and efficient—rewarding players who can consistently enable descent while keeping the board under control.
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