it needs to be in a deck with A TON of spells ranging from 2 to 4 mana value so you can get your mana value back while casting this regularly. With tons of 1CMC cards it's just a worse Finale of Promise most of the time.
it's nice with Smoldering Egg and we can never forget it casts Living End and friends as well.
either way, it does need a very specific kind of deck.
and it's probably bad in limited.
if this finds the correct deck, it could be awesome.
it needs to be in a deck with A TON of spells ranging from 2 to 4 mana value so you can get your mana value back while casting this regularly. With tons of 1CMC cards it's just a worse Finale of Promise most of the time.
it's nice with Smoldering Egg and we can never forget it casts Living End and friends as well.
either way, it does need a very specific kind of deck.
and it's probably bad in limited.
if this finds the correct deck, it could be awesome.
Wrong it’s better
It’s instant speed and you can make any sorcery 6 or less cmc an instant with this
Would not be surprised if this card pushes mono-red ponza into the modern metagame (even as an outlier) for a moment. The ability to reuse two stone rain/molten rain/pillage effects at instant speed (or one with a burn spell) seems pretty okay.
it needs to be in a deck with A TON of spells ranging from 2 to 4 mana value so you can get your mana value back while casting this regularly. With tons of 1CMC cards it's just a worse Finale of Promise most of the time.
it's nice with Smoldering Egg and we can never forget it casts Living End and friends as well.
either way, it does need a very specific kind of deck.
and it's probably bad in limited.
if this finds the correct deck, it could be awesome.
Wrong it’s better
It’s instant speed and you can make any sorcery 6 or less cmc an instant with this
I really don't think it's outright better. It's far less flexible than Finale and much harder to use in multicolor decks. Acting as a Quicken is nice, but really getting value from this needs a better use than that.
it needs to be in a deck with A TON of spells ranging from 2 to 4 mana value so you can get your mana value back while casting this regularly. With tons of 1CMC cards it's just a worse Finale of Promise most of the time.
it's nice with Smoldering Egg and we can never forget it casts Living End and friends as well.
either way, it does need a very specific kind of deck.
and it's probably bad in limited.
if this finds the correct deck, it could be awesome.
Wrong it’s better
It’s instant speed and you can make any sorcery 6 or less cmc an instant with this
it's worse in the same shell of a deck dominated by CMC1.
also, regularly spellslinger decks will prefer CMC 1-2 so they can cast more stuff... and this card is pretty bad in decks with a lot of CMC1 and 2.... you really want to be able to cast 2 things that sum up to 6 and that deck will likely be kinda inneficient.
I'm not sure what people will do with this card, the sheer power is there, for sure...
I'll try building something with this and Collected Conjuring they seem like they were made for each other.
Seems like a card potentially tailor-made for Ruby Storm in Legacy. Lets you do lines like Seething Song into Bonus Round into Rite of Flame, cast this and even if you only have those 3 spells in your graveyard, you just spent 4 cards, have a storm count of 7, and have 21 red mana in your pool.
For bonus points you could have one or both of the 4cc Expertises target Kari Zev's Expertise and have that target something like Lightning Helix for 5
I was thinking more about the "storm line" such as it is and what's funny is that if you've looted a copy away you can cast a copy from hand, or off a Gearhulk target a copy in your yard and something like Opt or Shock, then with the one in the yard cast any of the other lines.
Is there a way in Historic or Modern (other than dredge) to put your library into your graveyard? I sort of feel like this could power out a dredge-like combo if you chain copy effects and keep an unvresolved copy of this or Mizzix's Mastery on the stack. Sure, the fail rate will be high but it could be fun.
I get this sinking feeling that this will get abused in Pioneer. Kind of like a CoCo or Winota for Sorceries at instant speed.
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it needs to be in a deck with A TON of spells ranging from 2 to 4 mana value so you can get your mana value back while casting this regularly. With tons of 1CMC cards it's just a worse Finale of Promise most of the time.
it's nice with Smoldering Egg and we can never forget it casts Living End and friends as well.
either way, it does need a very specific kind of deck.
and it's probably bad in limited.
if this finds the correct deck, it could be awesome.
Wrong it’s better
It’s instant speed and you can make any sorcery 6 or less cmc an instant with this
I really don't think it's outright better. It's far less flexible than Finale and much harder to use in multicolor decks. Acting as a Quicken is nice, but really getting value from this needs a better use than that.
it's worse in the same shell of a deck dominated by CMC1.
for example in Arclight Phoenix shells
also, regularly spellslinger decks will prefer CMC 1-2 so they can cast more stuff... and this card is pretty bad in decks with a lot of CMC1 and 2.... you really want to be able to cast 2 things that sum up to 6 and that deck will likely be kinda inneficient.
I'm not sure what people will do with this card, the sheer power is there, for sure...
I'll try building something with this and Collected Conjuring they seem like they were made for each other.
Shards of awful never
For bonus points you could have one or both of the 4cc Expertises target Kari Zev's Expertise and have that target something like Lightning Helix for 5
The black one mentions night's reach, this one namely the borderless art, invoke myojin/honden of Infinite Rage.
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Second spell can be Irencrag Feat, then you Banefire for X=20. Or Geosurge to play both Ulamogs.
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