This card looks sweet. A nice Sea Gate Stormcaller variant that doesn't need to be cast in the same turn as the spell, can copy 2mv spells for 3 total mana investment, and can be played in the late game to copy bigger spell targets. Plus, it has some artifact interactions! I think this card looks really good.
Probably the second best Snapcaster Mage effect after Snappy himself. I definitely like this a lot more than Sea Gate Stormcaller / Mission Briefing. Obviously much stronger in a powered cube where you can hit Ancestral Recall / Time Walk. In unpowered, it essentially becomes a build your own Mulldrifter. This can really with cheap 2 for 1s like Expressive Iteration / Night's Whisper / Chart a Course / etc. Having flash would've gone a long way so it could work with counterspells also. I might test this one, although being unpowered makes it a bit more borderline for me, especially since you can't blink it or something like you can with Aether Channeler.
Another note: if I'm not mistaken this can also hit an Ancestral Vision or other suspend-only spells with no mana cost - something Snapcaster can't do.
Obviously great in powered cubes and solid in unpowered.
not being able to abuse it is unfortunate , but there’s enough cheap powerful spells that flashing them back while effecting the board is good enough without abuse.
It’ll most often be cast for 3 , but the modality of the 7 mana mode will certainly come up.
Agreed, this card looks great, and really fun. Creative use of prototype here. This is a good pick in the artifact deck, spells matter, or with any typical power or low cost spells.
In my cube the only blue cards this can hit on the prototype mode are Brainstorm and Consider, as it doesn't work with Occult Epiphany and the counterspells that make up for most of the 2-mana slot. This card would only be playable in Izzet, where it can flashback Expressive Iteration or red burn spells, and while the interaction with Iteration is very strong, I'm not sure I want to play a card that narrow.
In my cube the only blue cards this can hit on the prototype mode are Brainstorm and Consider, as it doesn't work with Occult Epiphany and the counterspells that make up for most of the 2-mana slot. This card would only be playable in Izzet, where it can flashback Expressive Iteration or red burn spells, and while the interaction with Iteration is very strong, I'm not sure I want to play a card that narrow.
You don’t play black discard? Swords to plow shares? Path?
In our cube white has 2 good hits, blue has 7, black has 9, Red has 7, and green has 1. I don't think that's enough.
Not sure what I'm missing here but this seems really mediocre imo, since I don't think our cube is particularly different composition-wise from others'. We tested Sea Gate Stormcaller when it came out, and it was pretty middling too so I don't think that's a great reflection on this card.
How has this performed for people? To me it has too many things going against it, but people in my playgroup have suggested it and I maybe it plays better than Id expect.
I haven't played with it, but I also never saw the appeal. In powered Cubes the dream is always to recast, which seems enticing, but in unpowered this looks very underwhelming and certainly not something I want to spend a slot on.
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This card looks sweet. A nice Sea Gate Stormcaller variant that doesn't need to be cast in the same turn as the spell, can copy 2mv spells for 3 total mana investment, and can be played in the late game to copy bigger spell targets. Plus, it has some artifact interactions! I think this card looks really good.
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I think, like stormcaller, this is great if you have a powered cube, probably not if you don't. You really want to be recurring time walk with this.
You have to cast it immediately upon the ETB trigger resolving.
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not being able to abuse it is unfortunate , but there’s enough cheap powerful spells that flashing them back while effecting the board is good enough without abuse.
It’ll most often be cast for 3 , but the modality of the 7 mana mode will certainly come up.
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Only white targets are Ephemerate, Swords to Plowshares and Unexpectedly Absent (the other removal is March of Otherworldly Light, Portable Hole, Touch the Spirit Realm Leyline Binding, Skyclave Apparition and Solitude, so no path). I don't currently have 1-mana discard in black and all the removal, other than Lethal Scheme is creature-based, so the only black targets are Deadly Dispute and Village Rites. Only green target is Once Upon a Time.
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Not sure what I'm missing here but this seems really mediocre imo, since I don't think our cube is particularly different composition-wise from others'. We tested Sea Gate Stormcaller when it came out, and it was pretty middling too so I don't think that's a great reflection on this card.