Unholy Heat

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Unholy Heat: Instant, Mystery Booster 2. Unholy Heat deals 2 damage to target creature or planeswalker. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{R}
Mana value
1
Type
Instant
Colour identity
Red (R)
Rarity
Common
Set
Mystery Booster 2 (MB2)
Released
2024-08-02
Collector number
63
Artist
Kari Christensen
Commander rank
8,997 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Delirium

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About Unholy Heat

Unholy Heat is a Magic: The Gathering card, a common red instant from Mystery Booster 2 (MB2), a Masters set released in August 2024. It is collector number 63 in that set, with art by Kari Christensen. It costs {R} (one red mana) to cast, for a mana value of 1. Its colour identity is red. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Pauper, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Pauper Commander, Brawl, Historic, Timeless and Gladiator. It has been printed in 8 sets, from Modern Horizons 2 (2021) to Mystery Booster 2 (2024). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.23 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-13).

Card text

Unholy Heat deals 2 damage to target creature or planeswalker.

Delirium - Unholy Heat deals 6 damage instead if there are four or more card types among cards in your graveyard.

"The devils use fire. Why shouldn't we?"

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.23 (as of 2026-11-13).

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

Format legality

Legality of Unholy Heat by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
PauperLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Pauper CommanderLegal
BrawlLegal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
GladiatorLegal

Other printings of Unholy Heat

Unholy Heat has been printed in 8 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Secret Lair Countdown (SLC) #70Rare2026
Special Guests (SPG) #71Mythic2024
Modern Horizons 2 Timeshifts (H2R) #13Common2024
Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (OTC) #182Common2024
Secret Lair Promo (SLP) #4Rare2023
Jumpstart: Historic Horizons (J21) #529Common2021
Modern Horizons 2 (MH2) #145Common2021

Official rulings

Two official rulings apply to Unholy Heat, newest first.

  • The card types that can appear in a graveyard are artifact, battle, creature, enchantment, instant, kindred, land, planeswalker, and sorcery. Legendary, basic, and snow are supertypes, not card types; Kavu and Equipment are subtypes, not card types.
  • Unholy Heat checks your graveyard as it resolves to determine if it deals 2 or 6 damage. At that time, Unholy Heat isn't in the graveyard yet.

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