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Obsidian Fireheart

Zendikar • #140 • mythic
Creature — Elemental |
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Obsidian Fireheart

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Reprint Profile:
Printed 2 times LOW

Reprinted 2x historically, most recently in 2017 -- no dedicated reprint sets or recent activity.

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Rarity
mythic
Set Origin
Daily Shift
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EDHREC Rank
#17,297
Mana Cost
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Oracle Data

Card Type Creature — Elemental
Color Identity Red
Power / Toughness 4 / 4
🖋️ Curator's Notes
1RR: Put a blaze counter on target land without a blaze counter on it. For as long as that land has a blaze counter on it, it has "At the beginning of your upkeep, this land deals 1 damage to you." (The land continues to burn after this creature has left the battlefield.)
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Official Judge Precedents

5 Precedents

The ability gained by the land triggers at the beginning of the upkeep of the land’s controller, not the beginning of the upkeep of Obsidian Fireheart’s controller. The player who controls the land at the time the ability triggers is the one who’s dealt damage.

As the reminder text indicates, whether the targeted land has the triggered ability that’s been granted to it depends only on whether it has a blaze counter on it, not on whether Obsidian Fireheart is still on the battlefield.

A land with a blaze counter on it is an illegal target for this ability. You may activate the ability targeting a land, then activate the ability in response to itself targeting the same land. Although the first ability to resolve will put a blaze counter on that land, the second ability to resolve won’t resolve.

If all blaze counters on a land are moved to a different land, the triggered ability doesn’t follow them. The first land no longer has the ability because it no longer has a blaze counter on it. The second land doesn’t have the ability because Obsidian Fireheart didn’t target it.

If a land ends up with more than one blaze counter on it (thanks to Doubling Season or Gilder Bairn, for example), the ability still only causes it to deal 1 damage to its controller each turn.

📜 Technical Attributes
Release Date: 2009-10-02
Set Name: Zendikar
Artist Reference: Raymond Swanland
Border Profile: black
✨ Variants & Finishes
Available Finishes Standard • Traditional Foil
Promo Status NO
Edition Status Original Printing

Sanctioned Formats

standard not_legal
modern legal
legacy legal
commander legal
pioneer not_legal
pauper not_legal
vintage legal
brawl not_legal
explorer not_legal
penny legal
predh legal
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