Meltdown Fiery Artifact Sweep
Meltdown is a red sorcery from Modern Horizons 3 that gives you a scalable way to clear the board by selecting an X and paying X mana plus one red. For the cost, you destroy each artifact with mana value X or less. The effect is predictable yet potent, punching through a suite of mana rocks or utility artifacts that stall a plan. The spell scales with your situation, allowing a compact answer early and a more sweeping effect later in the game.
In practice, Meltdown rewards careful timing and mana management. Cast it when you can set X to slice through the key targets while leaving bigger artifacts untouched for another day. The flavor text reflects the harsh realities of the mana rig, where such bursts of heat are part of daily life and the viashino language even has a word for them.
Card Details:
- Mana Cost – {X}{R}
- Card Type – Sorcery
- Subtypes – None
- Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – Destroy each artifact with mana value X or less. Catastrophes happened so often at the mana rig that the viashino language had a special word to describe them.
