Vandalblast
Sorcery
Destroy target artifact you don't control.
Overload 
(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")
Why is this card good?
early, it's spot removal for a problematic Sol Ring, Smothering Tithe, or combo piece. Later, the overload becomes a one-sided artifact board wipe — you destroy every artifact you don't control while keeping your own mana rocks and pieces intact. That asymmetry is huge in a format flooded with mana artifacts.
It's strongest against artifact-heavy tables: affinity/artifact decks, Urza, treasure-token strategies, and stax builds leaning on Winter Orb or Static Orb. Even at "fair" tables, the early single-target mode rarely sits dead.
Don't lean on it as your only stax/combo answer — it can't touch enchantments, creatures, or planeswalkers, and the overload is reactive (it won't stop a one-shot trigger). But the cost is so low and the upside so high that there's little reason to leave it home in a red deck.Related cards
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Rulings (4)
- 2024-01-12
If you don't pay the overload cost of a spell with overload, that spell will have a single target. If you pay the overload cost, the spell won't have any targets.
- 2024-01-12
Because a spell with overload doesn't target when its overload cost is paid, it may affect permanents with hexproof or with protection from the appropriate color.
- 2024-01-12
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as an overload cost), add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
- 2024-01-12
If you are instructed to cast a spell with overload "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to pay its overload cost instead.