A good, fun card. The best thing about this card is it can be used on either your spells, or your opponent's spells.
Volcre
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(2 votes)
A very fun card. In casual, I throw 1 or 2 of these into every blue deck I have just because it can be quite interesting against most opponents.
inmypants22
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
im liking using this on whatever my opponent throws at me... like plow under
Agent1103
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(3 votes)
In my humble opinion this should be rated 5/5 and it seems that many of the posters aren't quite thinking outside the box. This spell can target counterspells, such as Cryptic Command, and use them against the counterspell. This effect allows your spell to be put into play and grants any other effects that spell may provide. When used properly, Twincast becomes a potent defensive weapon, as well as the obvious "Fork-esq" offensive spell.
OmniMarconi67
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(3 votes)
Twincast is incredibly versitile, becoming anything you need it to be at the time. Not only can you double your own nasty spells (Glimpse the Unthinkable or offensive boosters), it can counter counterspells (doubling Cryptic Command is just nasty). My favorite use of this is as a spoiler for combo decks that like to use storm to hit you with one shot; your Twincast will resolve on the stack first, hitting your opponent dead before his damage has a chance to resolve.
Megrimage
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
i used this in a multi color deck I had a while back. I was twincasting my wheel of fortune and wheel of fates to mill everyone for 14. not bad for 2 mana (wheel of fate once it resolves) or 5 mana on a wheel of fortune. it was a fun deck because I had some megrims in there... however now I threw them in a lobotomy/shimmian specter deck. I attack with shimmian, remove something, and if they have another good thing in there then lobotomy/twincast and remove 2 more things.. followed by jester's cap if I see something in the library... sometimes I even remove land with jester's cap so mind funeral is more devistating.
elbu
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
can you twincast the twincast you just play? and so on and on?
LeoKula
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The more you think about this card, the more insane options come to mind! I'm using it in a blue / red burn deck... I can double Browbeat, Impulse, Lightning Bolt, Swords to Plowshares... or whatever my opponent throws at me. This card is just wonderful 5/5
Echocut
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(1 vote)
When I first bought a Tenth Edition fatpack to re-introduce me to Magic, I got three of these. At first I didn't think about using this card until I was playing against a friend- which he used Demonfire against me (which had Hell-bent) to win. After the game, I realized that I underestimated the potential of this card.
Such an evil card either way- with you or against you.
RyanFisher
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Swerve your opponents Blightning and Twincast it o.o
Qazior
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This is another thing against Banefire, other being Swerve and similiar
blindcansee
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Awesome card with many possibilities. Makes any blue deck more flexible with your opponent. I have 4 in my counter deck. It's fun to counter their spell and place Twincast on the stack. It copies their spell for your use but cancels it for their use. Personally I think there should be a card that can copy any spell as it is being cast. Make it like Spell Blast only replace counter with copy.
Artifice101
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Targeting Twincast to make an infinite loop for a spell with "Storm" doesn't work because the storm reminder text tells you it takes into account spells cast before the Storm spell, not copied. I learned this subtlety with "Cascade" as well. SO while a great card, thankfully it does have its limitations.
Warwikk
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
What happens if you twincast something with X?
Omnialiaz
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(2 votes)
@Warwikk- I believe, like Pyromancer Ascension and a few other cards that copy, that you get to copy the X, too. Sooo with a Banefire set to 10 and 2 Islands sitting around, that's game.
Also, thank god this card is copy and not cast. Otherwise the sort of mayhem that could be wreaked would be LEGEN- wait for it -DARY!
maxstock
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
If someones attacks me with a Illusions Of Grandeur + Donate combo, can I use Twincast to send the "gift" back?. Newbie question!. Thanks.
coyotemoon722
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(6 votes)
One of the only good blue cards in Standard.
T3hPwnographer
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Here's a scenario that's been giving me trouble...
My friend cast Branching Bolt, targeting one of my creatures. In response, I cast Spell Pierce. I noticed that he had 2 lands untapped, though, which he could use to render my Spell Pierce useless, so I used Twincast to copy my Spell Pierce, choosing not to change the target (Branching Bolt). My friend said that this was illegal because the copy can only target the spell on top of the stack, which was my own Spell Pierce.
Is it true that I would have ended up countering my own counter, or can a spell copied with Twincast target the same spell as the original?
lol @ Endzeit...Oh, da ist ein Deutscher, wie ich sehe!^^
By the way, one question: What happens when you copy a spell for which the additional x cost has been paid - do you copy that additonal effect with it?! That would be cool...
nammertime
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Blindcansee, why would you use a Counterspell AND a Twincast just to send an opponent's spell back into his face when you could just cast Swerve most of the time and be done with it?
And by the way, unless I'm mistaken, I think you can cast, say, Grapeshot, then in response, cast Twincast and target itself five million times, then, the last time, target Grapeshot. You'll be doing five million and one damage thanks to the storm effect on the Grapeshot at the bottom of the stack.
EDIT: Yea, no Twincast plus Grapeshot. My bad.
Gaussgoat
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(4 votes)
This is one of the best spells around... a definite 5/5. The possibilities are limitless, and it can be used on both offense and defense.
Amazing.
psyklone
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
The target spell is chosen on casting Twincast, and a copy is put (not cast) onto the stack upon resolution. Thats when you can change any targets for the copy (if possible).
Therefore Twincast cannot target itself.
However if you target another Twincast (presumibly cast after whatever the initial spell was), yours will resolve first, putting another Twincast on top of the stack, you then target the 1st Twincast again, it resolves, and puts another copy on top. Basically youre keeping the stack 3 spells deep for no reason.
As for the Illusions Of Grandeur + Donate combo, Twincasting the donate would be pointless. Although donate is a valid target, you can't change any of donates targets to stop the combo. You do not control Illusions until the first resolves, and then its too late to cast Twincast. You can however give them something you already control.
This is really an eye-for-an-eye card unless you cast it on a counterspell.
pigknight
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(12 votes)
I twincast your twincast when you twincast my twincast.
mmolord
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(3 votes)
got a question my friend used banefire at full, i used twincast against it he said it couldnt be countred but im not im redirecting the damage who is right.
savage3f
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(5 votes)
Twincast+Traumatize=a big friggin smile on my face...unless someone does it to me.
Dingo777
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
awesome awesome awesome card, banefire may not be preventable, or counterable, but you can stick a fork in it, you can also redirect it, and remove it and bounce it, banefire is strong, but not unstopable
T3hPwnographer: you are right, Branching bolt is still on the stack, you could cast spell pierce then twincast, and use 2 counter spells on 1 spell, 1 hits it, the other either gets paid for, or fizzles cause the spell it targeted is no longer there to counter
now, if spell pierce has resolved, and failed, you could not twin cast it
you can choose any spell on the stack to counter, not the top, and if I am wrong, let me know, but as far as I know, you can target any spell on the stack to counter
where you were wrong is in casting spell pierce with him having 2 mana open, and on top of that, you didnt twincast his bolt, maybe he didnt have anything worth twincasting back at, but still, you could have bolted a flier and a grounder on their side
CharlieB1979
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
My Favorite = Critical moment, I cast Hindering Light and my opponent Twin Casts the Hindering Light, thinking they stopped me :).
BeRad
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Twincasting on timewarp seems like fun, only a total mana cost of 7 for 3 consecutive turns? Worth it especially if your opponent has tapped creatures.
mflanaga
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Twincast your opponents Harrow - you don't need to pay the sac land cost for the copy :)
Aaaand, if you happen to have another twincast in your hand, after your copy resolves and you've plopped two more islands down, you could possibly have 6 land on turn 3 thanks to your opponents ramp!
Shieldman
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
If you Twincast a card with kicker (specifically Rite of Replication) and the kicker is paid, would the copy be kicked, too?
bram-s-wallace
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@Sheildman it copies the spell as it is on the stack so, yes, the copy would be kicked.
Revelation666
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
Fun in a blue/black mill deck. Oh I'm just gonna twincast Glimpse the Unthinkable once and there goes the top 20 cards for 4 mana. Maybe throw in some Brain Freeze, Mind Funeral, Tome Scour for maximum cheapness. You could also throw Twincast on an Isochron Scepter to copy your mill spells all day long. Some Hedron Crabs to pick off free cards every time you play a land wouldn't be a bad idea either.
Demonic_Angel13
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I'm going to miss Twincast in M11. It's been fun doubling my Time Warps and Mind Funerals.
Edit: new 2011 card Reverberate is this colorshifted into red... well, back into red.
VoidedNote
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The thing I love about this card is you can double your own cards, and you can copy your opponents spells. And nothing hurts more than a twincasted Cruel Ultimatum.
Islander902
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Two questions regarding Twincast. Are you technically "casting" a spell twice? Like if you were to Reverberate or Twincast a Lightning Bolt whilst there is one in your graveyard and you control a Pyromancer Ascension(Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell that has the same name as a card in your graveyard, you may put a quest counter on Pyromancer Ascension) would you be casting two Lightning Bolts therefore putting two quest counters on Pyromancer Ascension? Second, does Reverberate or Twincast combine with Rebound? If you were to cast a Twincasted or Reverberated Staggershock would you then exile that copy and be able to play it from exile as you would the original spell?
palmspark
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I love it when my opponent plays a counter on one of my big creatures, then i twincast his cancel and target his cancel, countering his counter.
dberry02
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card is just double the fun! :D
Sixty3Zero
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Oh look, it has a Red version for Burn decks. Reverberate
Braden_Campbell
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Traps are instants, . Hehe
Kamidii
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Time warp anyone?
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@ islander
Your not casting the copy so it dosent proc pyro. But it can proc pyro on its own and if pyro is proced u can double bolt + double twincast = quad bolt. Beter yet, Quad Lava Axe GG!!
TheSwarm
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
question.. If you twincasted a lightning bolt targeted at you who has 2 life and hit the caster who has 2 life.. What would happen? would both resolve, dealing 3 damage to both players and resulting in a tie, or would your copy resolve first and result in you winning the game?
Hm... If I twin cast a twin cast infinity times and then cast brain brain freeze... Do we all die?
Since1986
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I hate it when i hear the phrase "Twincast for the win"
Any time ive ever wanted to put 4 of these in my deck i found it to be ineffective and inconvenient. Still it has great potential to be abused.
Paolino
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Fork can't be (functionally) reprinted, but can easily be colorshifted. Moreover, from a flavorful perspective, this effect is much more blue than red.
The funniest thing to do with this card is to copy an opponent's Counterspell (or similar) and make the copy target the original one!
Twincast is amazing, but I'm finding Redirect is even better for my play style. I'm extremely happy blue has both... it's a real shame they were never in the same core set.
EDIT: Paolino, they *did* print a functional reprint of Fork. See Reverberate. I guess it's technically a variant since the copy is not necessarily red, but it's still basically Fork II. If you play Red/Blue, you can have up to 12 "Forks" in your deck.
dragonhat
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Opponent: I cast Overrun! And with that, I'll... Me: I cast Twincast and copy your Overrun! Opponent: Um, okay, I guess I won't attack after all. Your turn.
Twincast. Because blue just didn't embarrass red enough, they had to go ahead and make a near-functional reprint of one of red's most iconic spells from the old days and make it blue.
Really classy, Wizards. At least we now have Reverberate to put it in the color that it belongs in.
arti87
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Hi there. I'm beginner and my question is - how copying of spells works with spells with X mana cost such as Street Spasm? For instance if I cast it for 6 mana for overload cost and copy it using Twincast it deals 4 damage to all nonflying creatures?
illusion121
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Can somebody please answer this question.
We know copies of spells increased by X amt are copied exactly, but what about spells pumped by the number of lands you control.
If a spell does damage based on the number of mountains an opponent controls (not pumped by X) and you control no mountains, but apply twincast. Will it do the amount of damage your opponent was going to do to you or 0 damage (mono blue deck)?
Kaleidostorm
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
It is a shame they didn't reprint this into standard... I wanted to twincast Breaking // Entering to afford feeding my poor Consuming Aberration
Phillbato
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I maintain that this card should have been called spoon, since it's a blue copy of fork :P
@Travelsonic: Not only could you do exactly that, you have a few ways in which you can reach that point. 1: Truamatize, in response, I twincast it and if you thought that was bad, I have a second twincast as a response to that for you. There's absolutely nothing stopping you from copying a spell so long as that spell is still on the stack. 2: Truamatize, in response, I twincast it and now respond to that twincast by twincasting my twincast which will twincasttwincast... 3:"... And now my twincasted twincast, twincast by twincast will twincast-" "Thassa damnit! COUNTERFLUX!" "Ah, ah, ah. Impatient little Izzet mage. I haven't passed priority, but I suppose I'll let it slide by making that last one copy Traumatize. After all..." "No." "I still have two mana open." "Don't you dare." "Yes." "No." "Reverberate." "Wait, what does tha- NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
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Such an evil card either way- with you or against you.
Also, thank god this card is copy and not cast. Otherwise the sort of mayhem that could be wreaked would be LEGEN- wait for it -DARY!
My friend cast Branching Bolt, targeting one of my creatures. In response, I cast Spell Pierce. I noticed that he had 2 lands untapped, though, which he could use to render my Spell Pierce useless, so I used Twincast to copy my Spell Pierce, choosing not to change the target (Branching Bolt). My friend said that this was illegal because the copy can only target the spell on top of the stack, which was my own Spell Pierce.
Is it true that I would have ended up countering my own counter, or can a spell copied with Twincast target the same spell as the original?
lol @ Endzeit...Oh, da ist ein Deutscher, wie ich sehe!^^
By the way, one question: What happens when you copy a spell for which the additional x cost has been paid - do you copy that additonal effect with it?! That would be cool...
And by the way, unless I'm mistaken, I think you can cast, say, Grapeshot, then in response, cast Twincast and target itself five million times, then, the last time, target Grapeshot. You'll be doing five million and one damage thanks to the storm effect on the Grapeshot at the bottom of the stack.
EDIT: Yea, no Twincast plus Grapeshot. My bad.
Amazing.
Therefore Twincast cannot target itself.
However if you target another Twincast (presumibly cast after whatever the initial spell was), yours will resolve first, putting another Twincast on top of the stack, you then target the 1st Twincast again, it resolves, and puts another copy on top. Basically youre keeping the stack 3 spells deep for no reason.
As for the Illusions Of Grandeur + Donate combo, Twincasting the donate would be pointless. Although donate is a valid target, you can't change any of donates targets to stop the combo. You do not control Illusions until the first resolves, and then its too late to cast Twincast. You can however give them something you already control.
This is really an eye-for-an-eye card unless you cast it on a counterspell.
T3hPwnographer: you are right, Branching bolt is still on the stack, you could cast spell pierce then twincast, and use 2 counter spells on 1 spell, 1 hits it, the other either gets paid for, or fizzles cause the spell it targeted is no longer there to counter
now, if spell pierce has resolved, and failed, you could not twin cast it
you can choose any spell on the stack to counter, not the top, and if I am wrong, let me know, but as far as I know, you can target any spell on the stack to counter
where you were wrong is in casting spell pierce with him having 2 mana open, and on top of that, you didnt twincast his bolt, maybe he didnt have anything worth twincasting back at, but still, you could have bolted a flier and a grounder on their side
Aaaand, if you happen to have another twincast in your hand, after your copy resolves and you've plopped two more islands down, you could possibly have 6 land on turn 3 thanks to your opponents ramp!
Edit: new 2011 card Reverberate is this colorshifted into red... well, back into red.
Second, does Reverberate or Twincast combine with Rebound? If you were to cast a Twincasted or Reverberated Staggershock would you then exile that copy and be able to play it from exile as you would the original spell?
Your not casting the copy so it dosent proc pyro. But it can proc pyro on its own and if pyro is proced u can double bolt + double twincast = quad bolt. Beter yet, Quad Lava Axe GG!!
time stretch
"Twincast for the win"
Any time ive ever wanted to put 4 of these in my deck i found it to be ineffective and inconvenient.
Still it has great potential to be abused.
The funniest thing to do with this card is to copy an opponent's Counterspell (or similar) and make the copy target the original one!
Oh wait...
I'm extremely happy blue has both... it's a real shame they were never in the same core set.
EDIT: Paolino, they *did* print a functional reprint of Fork. See Reverberate.
I guess it's technically a variant since the copy is not necessarily red, but it's still basically Fork II.
If you play Red/Blue, you can have up to 12 "Forks" in your deck.
Me: I cast Twincast and copy your Overrun!
Opponent: Um, okay, I guess I won't attack after all. Your turn.
Who runs this? I'll twincast my counterspell and pass turn?
see? Lame.
@Dream_Twist: I copy my kicked Rite of Replication. Or your Banefire. One of the two.
Really classy, Wizards. At least we now have Reverberate to put it in the color that it belongs in.
We know copies of spells increased by X amt are copied exactly, but what about spells pumped by the number of lands you control.
If a spell does damage based on the number of mountains an opponent controls (not pumped by X) and you control no mountains, but apply twincast. Will it do the amount of damage your opponent was going to do to you or 0 damage (mono blue deck)?
As in, I cast Traumatize, then Twincast it... can I then Twincast that same Traumatize again?
1: Truamatize, in response, I twincast it and if you thought that was bad, I have a second twincast as a response to that for you.
There's absolutely nothing stopping you from copying a spell so long as that spell is still on the stack.
2: Truamatize, in response, I twincast it and now respond to that twincast by twincasting my twincast which will twincast twincast...
3:"... And now my twincasted twincast, twincast by twincast will twincast-"
"Thassa damnit! COUNTERFLUX!"
"Ah, ah, ah. Impatient little Izzet mage. I haven't passed priority, but I suppose I'll let it slide by making that last one copy Traumatize. After all..."
"No."
"I still have two mana open."
"Don't you dare."
"Yes."
"No."
"Reverberate."
"Wait, what does tha- NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
...I'll see myself out now.