Hellfire

Hellfire {2}{B}{B}{B}

Sorcery
Destroy all nonblack creatures. Hellfire deals X plus 3 damage to you, where X is the number of creatures that died this way.
"High on a throne of royal state . . . insatiate to pursue vain war with heav'n."
—John Milton, Paradise Lost
Details
  • Artist: Pete Venters
  • Collector Number: 105
  • Available only as nonfoil
  • Rarity: rare (R1 LL1)
  • Hellfire is on the Reserved List.
  • Released: 1994-06-01
  • Set: Legends
Legalities
Rulings
  • 2009-10-01 A creature that regenerates instead of being destroyed doesn't leave the battlefield, so it's not put into a graveyard.
  • 2009-10-01 A token creature that's destroyed is put into its owner's graveyard, and will be counted by Hellfire's effect. (Immediately after Hellfire finishes resolving, the token will cease to exist.)
  • 2009-10-01 Hellfire checks the number of creatures put into graveyards as the result of its effect, not the number of creatures destroyed as a result of its effect. For example, a replacement effect that says "If a creature would be put into a graveyard from the battlefield, exile it instead" won't affect whether a creature is destroyed or not, but will affect whether it's put into a graveyard or not.
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Foreign names
  • Fuoco Infernale