Bottle-Cap Blast

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Bottle-Cap Blast: Instant, Fallout. Improvise. Bottle-Cap Blast deals 5 damage to any target. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{4}{R}
Mana value
5
Type
Instant
Colour identity
Red (R)
Rarity
Uncommon
Set
Fallout (PIP)
Released
2024-03-08
Collector number
55
Artist
Liiga Smilshkalne
Commander rank
4,075 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Improvise, Treasure

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About Bottle-Cap Blast

Bottle-Cap Blast is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon red instant from Fallout (PIP), a Commander product released in March 2024. It is collector number 55 in that set, with art by Liiga Smilshkalne. It costs {4}{R} (four generic and one red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 5. Its colour identity is red. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. Fallout is its only printing so far. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $2.65 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-11).

Card text

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)

Bottle-Cap Blast deals 5 damage to any target. If excess damage was dealt to a permanent this way, create that many tapped Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $2.65 (as of 2026-11-11).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Bottle-Cap Blast by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal

Other printings of Bottle-Cap Blast

The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Fallout (PIP) #583Uncommon2024

Official rulings

Three official rulings apply to Bottle-Cap Blast, newest first.

  • For a planeswalker, excess damage means damage in excess of the planeswalker's loyalty (the number of loyalty counters it has on it). For a battle, excess damage means damage in excess of the battle's defense (the number of defense counters it has on it).
  • Excess damage has been dealt to a creature if the damage dealt to it is greater than lethal damage. Usually, this means damage greater than its toughness, although damage already marked on the creature is taken into account.
  • Improvise doesn't change Bottle-Cap Blast's mana cost or mana value, and it can't reduce Bottle-Cap Blast's cost below {R}.

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