not bloody likely your gonna get targeted with anything when you have the land untapped. thats why these effects are printed as instants. same reason declaration of naught sucks.
DestinyGuy
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Might be playable in some formats (EDH?) if it targeted spells that don't target you.
Gheta
★★☆☆☆ (2.6/5.0)(8 votes)
Actually can be very amazing regardless of what the others say. "not bloody likely your gonna get targeted with anything when you have the land untapped."
Good. Then you wont be targeted at all, that is definitely an up for 3 mana.
Not only that, you can target yourself with something, then copy it repeatedly if you have the mana open. This also works well against counterspells, it can anti-counter everything they attempt to counter. This also works crazy with some cards that suspend, for instance a Ancestral Vision or Arc Blade or if you are brave and run black, Curse of the Cabal would be an insane combination. It can give you infinite red mana if you keep copying a Desperate Ritual spliced with another Desperate Ritual.
ZEvilMustache
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(4 votes)
Gheta: I'm pretty sure the spelll has to target you. Counter spells won't work, desperate ritual has no targets, and Arc Blade will just kill you. Ancestral Visions is pretty amazing, though. I appreciate you trying to save this card, but that should have happened during development.
Kenji18
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
I have mixed feelings about this card. I agree with Gheta in saying that this card is quite useful as a deterent, but I am finding it difficult to find offensive uses for it without hurting yourself too.
bloatation
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I guess it's not an atrocious deterrent, but having two or more on the board is worthless. I don't think I'd ever use this in a deck unless it had a reasonably cheap cycling.
UltimaCenturion
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(3 votes)
Psh. Red-white self-burn deck. Play purity and lightning bolt with this. Try flame javelin or lava ax. You just need a lot of mana. At the very least, there is Trace of Abundance to help with that. (Fireball with Purity would be fun, actually! And manabarbs!) That's it. The next deck I build will either be green-black (I tried one already, but I didn't get it right, but I'm not ready to give up yet!) or Red white self-burn.
DragonLord132
★★☆☆☆ (2.4/5.0)(5 votes)
Meant to fight red decks? Even though it's a red card?
...weird...
It's not even worth the status of being a common, let alone a rare.
KarmasPayment
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(2 votes)
It's a funny card for edh, managed to draw 51 cards with this + twincast + Braingeyser in my Niv deck. Although, Mirari is vastly superior to this even if it costs 2 more to play.
Necrolysis
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(13 votes)
Saw someone Volcanic Hammer themself, copy it twice with this, then swerved the original spell at his opponent.
Convoluted method of dealing 9 damage? Yes. Was it awesome? Yes.
CatsAreCthala
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(8 votes)
Great in the mirror... pun intended. And yes I am doing this to every card with mirror in the name.
daedhaed
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(3 votes)
great with Time Stretch{/c, Time Warp, Walk the Aeons, and Time Warp. Just suspend them with Jhoira of the Ghitu and when they go off just copy them for 3 mana. Mirari is still better though.
HairlessThoctar
★★☆☆☆ (2.6/5.0)(5 votes)
This is good not because you're going to get to use it much, but because you're not going to use it much. It's very presence is a very powerful deterrent to your opponents.
Reflect-O-Burn
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(3 votes)
While this card is almost useless on it's own, if you build a deck to utilize it it can be staggeringly powerful.
How?
I run this in a Counter-Burn deck that consists of people casting spells at me, me copying said spells, and then countering the original. Combined with Izzet Boilerworks and Cascade Bluffs I am guaranteed an abundance of Mana and plenty of laughs when their Blightning is copied back at them twice over, and I take no damage... on their turn! And even if the spell is uncounterable (Banefire, Urza's Rage), I can still send it back at the caster for twice the power... and usually I have a spell like Swerve to send the original back as well.
izzet_guild_mage
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(5 votes)
I use this with Desperate Ritual spliced onto any arcane card that harmfully targets a player. Ironically, in multiplayer, the target of the copy can concede to counter the copy and break the chain, buying everyone else a bit more time :P
sir_dwar
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(5 votes)
Two Words. Time Stretch.
You need to pack your deck with bomby stuff like that to make this work, though, so this is relegated mostly to EDH, sadly. Still, a nice idea.
lazymuse
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Hmmm. Nice card, I got it a while ago. I do have an important question, though, seeing as one of my friends has put this card in his white/blue deck.
Is this capable of copying infect spells and abilities so that it would make cards like Ichorclaw Myr, Necropede, Corpse Curse, Plague Stinger... etc (as well as equipments or instants that give creatures infect, like Tainted Strike or Grafted Exoskeleton) pretty much useless if played against a couple of these enchantments?
Dunno, I think in EDH it would do really well. I mean, 3 mana is kind of a lot, but there are plenty of blue cards you could play in a blue/red EDH that would set this off. As long as you have enough mana, you could draw a ton of cards with Blue Sun's Zenith or Compulsive Research could set you far ahead of the game. I know it's not really a massive plus, but, frankly, just having this card out will keep people from targeting you. If they can kill you in one shot, they can't. You can copy the spell (multiple times, if need be) and yours will go off first! I know there isn't that much spot-player removal nowadays, but if I played red/blue, I'd totally play this card.
It can save your butt without you even knowing it, and that both saves YOU stress and puts stress on the opponent.
LordofAwesome33
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(2 votes)
I think this card would go really well with Hive Mind.
Mode
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Throw your opponent's spell back at him. Winning! Throw your opponent's spell back at him, twice. Bi-winning!
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"not bloody likely your gonna get targeted with anything when you have the land untapped."
Good. Then you wont be targeted at all, that is definitely an up for 3 mana.
Not only that, you can target yourself with something, then copy it repeatedly if you have the mana open. This also works well against counterspells, it can anti-counter everything they attempt to counter. This also works crazy with some cards that suspend, for instance a Ancestral Vision or Arc Blade or if you are brave and run black, Curse of the Cabal would be an insane combination. It can give you infinite red mana if you keep copying a Desperate Ritual spliced with another Desperate Ritual.
That's it. The next deck I build will either be green-black (I tried one already, but I didn't get it right, but I'm not ready to give up yet!) or Red white self-burn.
...weird...
It's not even worth the status of being a common, let alone a rare.
Convoluted method of dealing 9 damage? Yes. Was it awesome? Yes.
It's very presence is a very powerful deterrent to your opponents.
How?
I run this in a Counter-Burn deck that consists of people casting spells at me, me copying said spells, and then countering the original. Combined with Izzet Boilerworks and Cascade Bluffs I am guaranteed an abundance of Mana and plenty of laughs when their Blightning is copied back at them twice over, and I take no damage... on their turn! And even if the spell is uncounterable (Banefire, Urza's Rage), I can still send it back at the caster for twice the power... and usually I have a spell like Swerve to send the original back as well.
You need to pack your deck with bomby stuff like that to make this work, though, so this is relegated mostly to EDH, sadly. Still, a nice idea.
Is this capable of copying infect spells and abilities so that it would make cards like Ichorclaw Myr, Necropede, Corpse Curse, Plague Stinger... etc (as well as equipments or instants that give creatures infect, like Tainted Strike or Grafted Exoskeleton) pretty much useless if played against a couple of these enchantments?
It can save your butt without you even knowing it, and that both saves YOU stress and puts stress on the opponent.
Throw your opponent's spell back at him, twice. Bi-winning!
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Your Time Warp has evolved into Time Stretch!