Earthquake
Mana cost {X}{R}.
Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.
Earthquake is a red card, legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Seventh Edition printing.
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Tracked daily since 28 July 2026: on Cardmarket between €0.73 and €1.87 in that time.
How often Earthquake is played
Earthquake is maindecked in 7 of 131 tournament decks in this archive (5%), averaging 1.7 copies; kept in 5 sideboards (4%); used by 2 of 33 tracked archetypes.
Counting only the 66 decks that can cast red cards, 11 of them play it (17%).
See how it compares on the Premodern staples list.
Premodern archetypes that play Earthquake
- Terrageddon: Usually one copy, most often in the Wild Mongrel build. It deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player, so with X = 2 it clears most of Goblins, Elves and Sligh, while Terravore and Elephant tokens usually survive it. It also hits your own Weathered Wayfarer, a Mongoose or Werebear without threshold, and your life total; discard to Wild Mongrel in response to keep it alive.
Sideboard plans with Earthquake
- Sligh vs. Goblins, Elves, Zombies and Clerics. Against Goblins and Elves, in: both Earthquake and both Lava Dart; out: both Goblin Patrol and both Sulfuric Vortex, which gains nothing against decks that don't gain life and which Goblins' main-deck Naturalize destroys. Against Zombies and Clerics, in: both Earthquake; out: both Goblin Patrol. Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player: X of 1 kills mana elves, Goblin Lackey, Goblin Matron, Goblin Sharpshooter and Goblin tokens, X of 2 most Zombies without a Lord and most Clerics, though Rotlung Reanimator replaces each Cleric that dies with a 2/2 Zombie.
- Sligh vs. Enchantress. In: Anarchy, Flaring Pain and both Earthquake. Flaring Pain stops Confinement from preventing damage for a turn, and in that turn Earthquake hits them as well as Argothian Enchantress, whose shroud doesn't stop it.
- Sligh vs. The Black Vise build. Nick Moran's 15 from the BCDL Open 5: four Pyroblast, four Overload, three Earthquake, two Price of Progress and two Anarchy. Against Goblins, Elves, Zombies, Clerics, RG Zoo and Full English Breakfast, in: all three Earthquake; out: three Black Vise. Earthquake leaves your Mishra's Factories alone unless they are animated.
Tournament decks with Earthquake
- Madness: 1st Place at PMPMPMPM XLI (1× sideboard)
- Darigaaz Midrange: 12th Place at 2026 Nantuko League (2× mainboard)
- Frenetic Encounter: 1st Place at APAC Webcam Season 21 (2× main + sideboard)
- Magnivore: 1st Place at Singapore Society FNM Jul 26 (1× mainboard)
- Goblins: 3rd Place at Midwest Championship Open (2× mainboard)
- Sligh: 1st Place at BCDL Open 5 @ The Warp Gate (3× sideboard)
- Fires: 1st Place at MTGO Premodern League (2× mainboard)
- Ponza Red: 1st Place at MTGO Premodern League (2× mainboard)
- Pillar Burn: 5th Place at FNM Lair EDITION (1× sideboard)
- Mono Red Burn: 1st Place at The Old Skull La Plata (1× sideboard)
- Mono R Ponza: 1st Place at Chile Premier League – May 2026 (2× mainboard)
