Blue Elemental Blast
Mana cost {U}.
Choose one —
• Counter target red spell.
• Destroy target red permanent.
Blue Elemental Blast is a blue card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Fourth Edition printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€2.81) · TCGplayer ($1.32) · Scryfall
Tracked daily since 28 July 2026: on Cardmarket between €2.03 and €2.81 in that time.
How often Blue Elemental Blast is played
Blue Elemental Blast is kept in 14 sideboards (11%); used by 11 of 33 tracked archetypes.
Counting only the 48 decks that can cast blue cards, 14 of them play it (29%).
See how it compares on the Premodern staples list.
Sideboard plans with Blue Elemental Blast
- Replenish vs. Sligh and Goblins.
- Landstill vs. Red decks: Sligh, Goblins, RG Zoo and The Solution. Hydroblast and Blue Elemental Blast counter Fireblast or Price of Progress or destroy a red permanent for one mana.
- Stasis vs. Goblins and Sligh. Against Goblins: three Chill, three Cursed Totem, Hydroblast and Blue Elemental Blast in; three Portent, two Impulse, Flash of Insight, Root Maze and a Thwart out.
- Stasis vs. Enchantress, Mono Black, Replenish, Terrageddon, Oath of Druids and The Rock.
- Stasis vs. MUD, The Solution, Deadguy Ale, Dromar Control and Reanimator.
- Psychatog vs. Sligh, Goblins and red decks. Hydroblast is in four of five sideboards, Blue Elemental Blast in half.
- UG Madness vs. Red decks (Sligh, Goblins).
- Tron vs. Sligh, Goblins, RG Zoo and The Solution.
- The Solution vs. Sligh, Goblins and RG Zoo. Against Sligh and Goblins, in: Hydroblast, Blue Elemental Blast, Warmth, Worship and both Pyroclasm; out: both Miscalculation, both Fact or Fiction and two Portent.
- Dromar Control vs. Sligh, Goblins, RG Zoo and The Solution.
- Aluren vs. Sligh, Goblins and Elves. Not in the reference list, but common: Hydroblast and Blue Elemental Blast in the blue-heavy lists counter burn and kill red creatures, Engineered Plague naming Goblin or Elf in the black lists.
- Gro-a-Tog vs. Sligh and Goblins. Hydroblast, in four of five sideboards, and Blue Elemental Blast counter a red spell or destroy a red permanent for one mana: Fireblast, Sulfuric Vortex, Siege-Gang Commander, or Goblin Piledriver while it is still a spell (on the battlefield it has protection from blue).
- Rebels vs. Sligh, Goblins, The Solution and Gro-a-Tog. Hydroblast and Blue Elemental Blast counter a burn spell, or Goblin Piledriver while it is on the stack, and destroy Sulfuric Vortex or Lightning Angel.
Tournament decks with Blue Elemental Blast
- Countertorch: 1st Place at Wels Card Shop (3× sideboard)
- Madness: 1st Place at PMPMPMPM XLI (1× sideboard)
- Rebels: 2nd Place at Premodern Bilbao 2026 (2× sideboard)
- Wizards: 8th Place at Adriatic Pile tappa bonus (3× sideboard)
- Mono Blue Control: 1st Place at MTGO Premodern League (3× sideboard)
- UBG Madness: 1st Place at Lega Roma - IV Tappa (3× sideboard)
- UBG Control Sideboard: 1st Place at Mercadian Frogs @ Troll2jeux (Paris, France) (2× sideboard)
- Treva Oath Control: 8th Place at Liga Premodern Alicante 2026 (4× sideboard)
- Mono Blue Control: 1st Place at MTGO Challenge (3× sideboard)
- 5C Wizards: 1st Place at Monthly Premodern Beagá - UGCardShop (1× sideboard)
- UW Landstill: 1st Place at New England Summer Regional (4× sideboard)
- Merfolks: 1st Place at Tribal Wars Premodern Brazil (3× sideboard)
- 5C Wizards Orb: 1st Place at Monthly Premodern Beagá – UGCardShop (1× sideboard)
- The Solution: 2nd Place at Monthly Italiano Maggio (1× sideboard)
Spicy brews with Blue Elemental Blast
- Painters (2×)
