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Artifact
At the beginning of your upkeep, if you have three or fewer cards in hand, this artifact deals 1 damage to target opponent or planeswalker.
"This has nothing to do with what you know and everything to do with what I wish." —Volrath
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Not in any of our curated decklists yet. Find similar cards.
Played in tournaments
Share of published Premodern decklists that play Scalding Tongs (main or sideboard): 4,173 lists from paper events and MTGO in the last 90 days, through .
- Play rate · 90d
- 0.0%
- −0.0 ppdown 33.3% over vs previous 90 days
- Play rate · 30d
- 0.0%
- −0.1 ppdown 100.0% over vs previous 30 days
- Lists · 90d
- 1
- 100% main deck
- Avg copies (main)
- 4.0
- when main-decked
Monthly play rate (12 × 30 days)
Nov 22, 2025Oct 18, 2026
Months with few lists are noisy; early months have partial paper coverage.
Most often in (90d)
- Mono Black Control2% of lists · 1
Printings (1)
Every tournament-legal paper printing (no gold-border, World Championship or oversized cards). Hover or tap a row to preview that printing.
