Funny that this effectively counters the uncounterable dovin's veto.
If I break this down into a few modes, it has a mission briefing like buyback your spell effect when not interacting with opponents on the stack, it is extremely good for defending your instants and sorceries against counters and your removal against dive down by buying back the original spell that was in line to be countered or fizzled and resolving it anyway, it is an answer to the uncounterable dovin's veto in control counter wars, it has a remand like tempo element that is especially potent against opposing resource generating spells like Chemister's Insight, Circuitous Route, or Nexus of Fate (people mentioned the interaction with Nexus of Fate earlier, but this is an amazing counter against a Nexus of Fate, stranding it in their hand and time walking them), or against targeted removal, buying your permanent a turn and destroying an opposing permanent in many cases. It is probably at worst a hard counter against Thought Erasure or Duress, giving you the option to remove the countered discard spell from the opposing hand or take a more important spell. Flashback and Jump Start spells cast from the graveyard get exiled if removed from the stack, so this is a hard counter and copy for something jump started, very relevant on the aforementioned chemister's insight's backside.
Those all seem super solid for UU. Might end up only being a sideboard card, since most of these are applications in control mirrors where stack interaction is heavily emphasized, but I could also see this being a super strong weapon in the arsenal of monoU against targeted creature removal from midrange decks.
This is a novel twist on Redirect. Why merely change the spell's target when you can bounce and copy it? Also note that this can effectively be copies 4-8 of whatever spell you want in a Ux deck.
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Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
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Would this be something Storm would be interested in?
I know copies don’t up the Storm count, but this can still enable some kooky stuff with, say, Grapeshot.
I personally would love to try this with Mind’s Desire.
It can also allow for repeated Cascading if you have the mana.
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
it does not counter... makes a copy of the spell and then return the card you've just copied to your hand... very powerful!
ah I misread it in my mind thought it countered it, sent it back to your hand, and made a copy. Same overall idea though haha.
If I break this down into a few modes, it has a mission briefing like buyback your spell effect when not interacting with opponents on the stack, it is extremely good for defending your instants and sorceries against counters and your removal against dive down by buying back the original spell that was in line to be countered or fizzled and resolving it anyway, it is an answer to the uncounterable dovin's veto in control counter wars, it has a remand like tempo element that is especially potent against opposing resource generating spells like Chemister's Insight, Circuitous Route, or Nexus of Fate (people mentioned the interaction with Nexus of Fate earlier, but this is an amazing counter against a Nexus of Fate, stranding it in their hand and time walking them), or against targeted removal, buying your permanent a turn and destroying an opposing permanent in many cases. It is probably at worst a hard counter against Thought Erasure or Duress, giving you the option to remove the countered discard spell from the opposing hand or take a more important spell. Flashback and Jump Start spells cast from the graveyard get exiled if removed from the stack, so this is a hard counter and copy for something jump started, very relevant on the aforementioned chemister's insight's backside.
Those all seem super solid for UU. Might end up only being a sideboard card, since most of these are applications in control mirrors where stack interaction is heavily emphasized, but I could also see this being a super strong weapon in the arsenal of monoU against targeted creature removal from midrange decks.
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
card is good, but Remand is still the better one, IMO
I know copies don’t up the Storm count, but this can still enable some kooky stuff with, say, Grapeshot.
I personally would love to try this with Mind’s Desire.
It can also allow for repeated Cascading if you have the mana.
Reprint Stasis!
Control needs more love.
EDH:
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm
WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW
WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW