Fireball

What? An 8-year-old could play any deck! You act like Magic is something that takes a genius to play. And this card is awesome, in an elf deck it gets a one-shot kill.

Fireball+Channel the greatest 2 card combo the game has ever seen.

i personnally keep the maximum amount of these in my deck at the same time and fork it for double the effect

Great card. However anyone who tries to channel/fireball me will be abruptly engaged in fisticuffs cause Sean is no am like cheese!!!

Usualy the only people who hate direct damage dont know how to play a burn deck... For those who dont know there ARE decks COMPLETELY based around burning (lighting bolt, shock, fireball, etc.). Combine this with Freed from the Real, Wirewood Channeler, for an infinate amount of burning amount infinate targets making an auto win situation (Common sense would tell you that you need atleast 2 elves in play for this plan to work and any cards that would counter any of the combo cards or the effects of the mana would result in an instant loose for you (if the damage were redirected or prevented totally.)

fireball+channel+mox anything+black lotus was the combo. still a great card, a personal favorite, and can be very useful when dealing with multiple targets such as a multiplayer game. Although rolling thunder is definitely better though.

No red deck without it. Lightning blot is better, but you can divide as you chose for 1 mana more pr. target. And hating direct dammage is a bad excuse for not choosing it.

This card is simply OK as far as X point burn goes. In order to kill a Llanowar elves and Baneslayer Angel with this card you have to spend 12 mana. It gets more absurd as you add more creatures to the amount you want to kill. The formula for killing N creatures is total mana spent = 1 red + [N-1 + N x MaxTough(of the N creatures)] colorless. There are a lot of situations where Ice XXR meteor shower is actually more efficient than fireball. Rolling Thunder surpasses all X point burn.

Very nice card, I have won many games due to it.

WHAT? If you really think any 8-year-old could play Magic, you must have a very remedial understanding of the game. You act like it takes no intelligence at all, which any player with a decent grasp of the game will tell you is laughable. If you read my other review again, you will see that I am not bashing red burn in general, just those decks that are built of nothing else.

I hate direct damage. The only direct damage I like is Lightning Bolts. I pity those who use these.