Burning Curiosity

Sorcery

Illustrated by Jim Pavelec

F

EDHREC Rank #8,941

As an additional cost to cast this spell, you may blight 1. (You may put a -1/-1 counter on a creature you control.) Exile the top two cards of your library. If this spell's additional cost was paid, exile the top three cards instead. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards.

Cinders are drawn to any heat, at any cost.

Rulings (7)

If a creature has +1/+1 counters and -1/-1 counters on it, state-based actions remove the same number of each so that it has only one kind of those counters on it. For example, if a creature has three +1/+1 counters on it and two -1/-1 counters are put on it, state-based actions will remove two of each of those kinds of counters, leaving the creature with just one +1/+1 counter.

Nov 17, 2025

All of the -1/-1 counters must be put on a single creature. You can't choose to split them up between multiple creatures.

Nov 17, 2025

If a creature that has +1/+1 counters on it receives enough -1/-1 counters to cause it to be destroyed by lethal damage or put into its owner's graveyard for having 0 or less toughness, effects that refer to the counters on that creature when it died will see all of those +1/+1 and -1/-1 counters.

Nov 17, 2025