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> Foreboding Blast deals 2 damage to target creature and 2 damage to each creature your opponent controls. {1}{R}.

That's crazy powerful for 2 mana!

Also you found an error. “Your opponent” is not valid in the language of M:TG it needs to be “target opponent” because “your opponent” is not well defined outside of two-player games.

There are examples of MTG cards referring to a single opponent in old editions[1], digital editions[2], and Un-sets[3].

[1]: https://scryfall.com/card/leg/6/clergy-of-the-holy-nimbus

[2]: https://scryfall.com/card/ymid/14/clone-crafter

[3]: https://scryfall.com/card/ugl/62/gus

I swear I also remember some burn spells that target a creature and then also deal damage to that creature's controller. I'd guess the wording came from trying to combine that with something else.

Yep, Chandra's Outrage, for example.

"Chandra's Outrage deals 4 damage to target creature and 2 damage to that creature's controller."

Sure: that's why we have the oracle text.

But in this context it seems that this applies to all the other creatures of the player(owner) of the target crearure.

It’s like a one-sided pyroclasm on steroids. And pyroclasm was a playable card.

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