mtg.wtf

Details

• Artist: Mark Tedin
• Collector Number: 29
• Available only as nonfoil
• Rarity: common
• Released: 1998-11-01
• Set: Anthologies

Legalities

• legal Commander
• legal Duel Commander
• legal Legacy
• legal Mirrodin Block
• legal Modern
• legal Pauper
• legal Penny Dreadful
• legal Premodern
• legal Vintage

Rulings

• 2017-11-17 Fireball's damage is divided as Fireball resolves, not as it's cast, because there are no choices involved. The division involves only targets that are still legal as Fireball resolves.
• 2017-11-17 For example, if X is 5 and you choose three target creatures, Fireball has a total cost of {7}{R} (even though its mana cost is just {5}{R} and its mana value is 6). If those creatures are all still legal targets as Fireball resolves, it deals 1 damage to each of them.
• 2017-11-17 You can target more than X creatures. However, if the number of legal targets at the time Fireball resolves is greater than X, none of them will be dealt any damage.
• 2017-11-17 You may cast Fireball with zero targets, regardless of the value chosen for X. If you do so, it will not be a targeted spell, and no damage will actually be dealt when it resolves.