Blast of Genius
Ultimate Masters
#197
Uncommon
Non-foil
Traditional foil
EN
Released · Illustrated by Terese Nielsen
- Draft Boosters
Ral Zarek's brainstorms bring actual thunder and lightning.
What is this worth
Non-foil
$0.07
Medium confidence
- Retail Card Kingdom $0.35 as of 2026-11-04
- Retail Cardmarket $0.15 as of 2026-11-05
- Retail Mana Pool $0.15 as of 2026-11-04
- Retail TCGplayer $0.07 as of 2026-11-05
Traditional foil
$0.39
High confidence
- Retail Card Kingdom $0.49 as of 2026-11-04
- Retail Cardmarket $0.33 as of 2026-11-05
- Retail Mana Pool $0.23 as of 2026-11-04
- Retail TCGplayer $0.39 as of 2026-11-05
A free account watches this card for you and tells you when the price moves.
- 25 collections, any mix
- Card scanning, 100 AI reads a day
- Up to 15 price alerts
- 90 days of value history
- 5 imports a day
- A trade list of 1,000 cards
- 30 contact requests a month
- Trade alerts
A watched card never leaves the plane unnoticed.
Price history
Foil
7 d
0.0%
30 d
+2.6%
Daily retail prices from 11 Sep 2026 to 05 Nov 2026, one point per day we recorded one.
Non-foil
7 d
0.0%
30 d
+16.7%
Daily retail prices from 11 Sep 2026 to 05 Nov 2026, one point per day we recorded one.
Oracle text
Choose any target. Draw three cards, then discard a card. Blast of Genius deals damage equal to the discarded card's mana value to that permanent or player.
Legalities
Legal Not legal
Standard
Not legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Pauper
Not legal
Premodern
Not legal
Old School
Not legal
Future
Not legal
Commander
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Pauper Commander
Not legal
PreDH
Not legal
Brawl
Not legal
Standard Brawl
Not legal
Historic
Not legal
Timeless
Not legal
Alchemy
Not legal
Gladiator
Not legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
tlr
Not legal
competitivebrawl
Not legal
Identifiers and data
- Scryfall id
- 7a97c6e7-affd-455a-925c-332ca6b7a6a5
- Oracle id
- cfe82e0f-7ac0-4de3-b1b3-a2d519b00bbd
- Illustration id
- 6b7916c5-8f47-4573-a855-ca778c54e90e
- Card back id
- 0aeebaf5-8c7d-4636-9e82-8c27447861f7
- Multiverse ids
- 456793
- MTGO id
- 70467
- TCGplayer id
- 180884
- Cardmarket id
- 367014
- MTGJSON uuid
- 97ad6c01-de59-55eb-8563-19a09d2406d6
- Card Kingdom id
- 222714
- Cardsphere id
- 57784
- Set code
- UMA
- Collector number
- 197
- Layout
- normal
- Frame
- 2015
- Border
- black
- Booster
- Yes
- Games
- paper, mtgo
- Story spotlight
- No
- Reserved list
- No
- EDHREC rank
- 17269
- Penny rank
- 11771
