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!!!! They're bringing back fork! HUZZAH!!! :D

the original reverberate/twincast. accept no substitutions.

multi-uses... oh you've got a cancel... well, so do I....... lava axed me????... catch this

Interesting how close Wizards are willing to cut it with the reserve list (no functional reprints).
Reverberate is only not a functional reprint because it doesn't make the copied spell turn red.

Interesting to note Fork still holds value to collectors who want Fork, and not Reverberate.

My favorite plays with Fork were...

Opponent: Ill counterspell that!

Me: I'll counterspell your counterspell (fork)

or

Opponent: I'll Ancestral Recall myself

Me: Me too! Yay! (fork)

That fork looks like its pokin' cookies.

Gonna fork me some chips ahoy... make that double

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I love Fork.

Fork is best when used with Sleight of Mind or Alter Reality.
Reverberate would be better used with Vodalian Mystic, Illusion, or Blind Seer.
THEY ARE FUNCTIONALLY DIFFERENT IN THE WAY YOU'D GET PAST PROTECTION.
If you're using Fork, you change the text so the spell it pops out is white, if what you want to kill is say, pro-red.
If you're using Reverberate, you need to change the color of the permanent you will be targeting with your reverberated spell, seeing as you'd never be able to target the pro-whatever permanent and THEN change the color of your copy.

I'd have to say I like Fork more. You can rely on the copy being red, and you would give a little less indication of what's going to happen if you Fork AND THEN change color text. If you change spell/permanent color and then Reverberate, your friends will know for sure what's about to happen. Not to mention, you'd have to rely on the permanent not being pro-blue if you're using Reverberate. Fork gives less indication of what exactly you're going to target, it gets past any color protection short of all five colors (when combined with color text changers) since you'd be changing the text on Fork itself, and it's just plain classy.

Looks like a giant arrow pointing leftward toward the bolt that the two charged particles are coming together to make.

If Wizards ever really wants to give the finger to its own reprint list, they'll create an instant for that says "Copy target instant or sorcery spell; you may choose new targets for the copy. Oh, and the targeted spell becomes red."

That's not a fork, that's not even a trident.

If your counterspells keep getting forked, all you can do is tell your opponent, "Fork you!"

Hovercraft: Anyone who has interest in any Alpha cards knows that with some of them, it's beyond normal game statistics. They're antiques, art objects. They aren't coming back. They're rare and collectible. Fork is a Reserved Listed Alpha Rare. There might even be fewer of them in existence than Black Lotus, since Black Lotus was more likely to get cared for. They could print an actual Functional Fork (even turns the spell Red), and it would not affect Fork too badly, because Fork is actually Real Rare, not just 'expansion symbol says Rare but there's millions of them'.

I once played Fork on a Berserk and Woolly Thoctar. The Thoctar came out on turn two with the help of a Birds of Paradise. Fork also combines well with Regrowth.

Fork is on the reserve list because of what it did not the current errata. Reverberate and Twincast are not close to the original pre-resevere list Fork. While Fork would turn the copied spell red this is not the issue although this was a problem with Evermind for awhile. If you Reverberate/Twincast Spelltwine Reverberate/Twincast would go to the graveyard. If R&D's Secret Lair was in play and you used Fork it would be removed from the game instead of going to the graveyard. Now compare the original Fork with Buyback or Cipher next to Reverberate. Copy a buyback and get your fork back is powerful although it doesn't work that way anymore. However, cards can not be removed from the reserve list. Wizards has shown now that they don't like messing with the color of spells too much so left out the color changing part of fork in the new print. Evermind used to change the color of the spell it was spliced onto and it was confusing at the time because it was not their intent and realised it was a mistake and had to correct it. It was a plus to turn Crushing Pain blue to take out protection red. In most instances it isn't important to change the color of a spell so to simplify the rulings they don't mess with it.

A Feynman diagram on a card!

Back in revised, this was a really expensive card, one of the powerful chase rares of the set, like 15$ or something...

Now you can get it for a few bucks, and Reverberate is seen as jank. :(

@Nighthawk42: Good. Everyone hates the reserved list; I honestly think that something in the area of 99% of players would be happy if WotC just announced tomorrow that they were going to ignore it and reprint whatever they wanted.

It's not like the lack of a place on the reserved list has kept Baneslayer Angel and the like from becoming hugely expensive. Just reserve the Power Nine (which it would be insane to reprint anyway) and unreserve everything else.

It's a gigantic double-pronged jagged fork spearing two chocolate chip cookies. Card wins.