TYPE
Instant

ABILITY
Searing Blaze deals 1 damage to target player or planeswalker and 1 damage to target creature that player or that planeswalker's controller controls. Landfall — If you had a land enter the battlefield under your control this turn, Searing Blaze deals 3 damage to that player or planeswalker and 3 damage to that creature instead.

ILLUSTRATOR
James Paick

LEGALITIES
Standard Future Historic Timeless Gladiator Pioneer Explorer Modern Legacy Pauper Vintage Penny Commander Oathbreaker Standardbrawl Brawl Alchemy Paupercommander Duel Oldschool Premodern Predh

LANGUAGES
EN

RULINGS

• 2010-03-01 The effect of this spell's landfall ability replaces its normal effect. If you had a land enter under your control this turn, only the landfall-based effect happens.
• 2010-03-01 You must choose two targets as you cast Searing Blaze: a player and a creature that player controls. If you can't (because there are no creatures on the battlefield, perhaps), then you can't cast the spell.
• 2010-03-01 Whether you had a land enter under your control this turn is checked as this spell resolves, not as you cast it.
• 2010-03-01 Having more than one land enter under your control this turn provides no additional benefit.
• 2010-03-01 If either target is illegal by the time Searing Blaze resolves, it still deals damage to the other target.
• 2010-03-01 Once the spell resolves, having a land enter under your control provides no further benefit.
• 2010-03-01 The landfall ability checks for an action that has happened in the past. It doesn't matter if a land that entered the battlefield under your control previously in the turn is still on the battlefield, is still under your control, or is still a land.