Commander format only, of course. Blue/Red should never be allowed reliable tutors, obviously, so I'm sure even this card was considered a stretch. The best use I can think of for it would be to fetch a bunch of X spells. Blaze, Epic Experiment, and whatever 3 cost counterspell you fancy.
brunsbr103
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I find Counterflux Cyclonic Rift/mizzium mortars and then like brainstorm or something
SirMalkin
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I like this. Not sure how useful it'll end up being, but I'm quite tempted to throw this into my Niv-Mizzet EDH just for flavor alone.
Cyberium
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(8 votes)
Help summons the Unspeakable by getting all three spells needed.
Okuu-chan
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Can't fetch Epic Experiment, unfortunately, as it works only on instants. Great for fetching counterspells. I would fetch Hinder, Izzet Charm, and Brainstorm.
Trygon_Predator
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Best for Commander. By the time you can pull this off in Limited or Standard you may have already lost.
Lotsofpoopy
★☆☆☆☆ (1.1/5.0)(7 votes)
Pros like me will choose our instants wisely.
LordRandomness
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Fetching a trio of counterspells can help maintain control dominance in the late game. I can see this being useful in Arcane Melee decks to grab instant speed X spells like Volcanic Geyser and some other handy tools. (Like Quicken, heh)
its a shame you prolly won't have the mana open to use those instants during your opponent's next turn.... i dunno, seems over-costed for anything but EDH
Leonin_Kha_Cameron
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I think that, for 7 cmc, those cards should be cast rather than put into the hand.
nirvava
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
In Flashback decks this is essentially a tutor for six cards at instant speed. If Cyclonic Rift is viable at seven mana because of its instant speed, I'm not quite sure why this card would have less of an impact.
Too bad no one will ever let me keep a Malignus on the board long enough to pull that off.
FirstPrime
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
For those who believe this card should cast the instants and that it is too expensive so you can't play the instants on your opponents next turn, don't forget that this tutor itself IS an instant. If your casting this in your main phase you ain't doin it right.
Weisse
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I opened a couple of these and decided to put them as 1 or 2-of in my casual Izzet deck. And boy, dropping this turn 5 or 6 (at the end of opponents turn, of course) with the help of Goblin Electromancers is a game winner. Why? It gets the answers that I need. If the game is going in my favor I will usually grab Syncopate, Izzet Charm, and Dissipate. However, tutoring up a Cyclonic Rift to overload will probably win the game as well. 1-of means I will rarely draw it opening hand, but will likely bump into it later in the game via Faithless Looting et al.
Maybe overcosted, but super-appealing to draw-go archetype as well. 4/5 from me.
Ferlord
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Damn... only Instants.
Like Isochron Scepter, I was depressed that the non-permanent type is only one half of your choices (technically).
It's a restrictive tutor, and flavourfully, I don't understand it.
An instant is a spell that's quick to cast. A sorcery is a spell that's slower to cast. Why can't Niv-Mizzet acquire a sorcery? Isn't he super smart? I mean, he IS a Dragon Wizard, and the guildmaster of the guild of mad scientists.
Maybe sorcery's are too slow for him. Maybe he frowns upon wizards who use them, thinking that people who cast slower spells are slow themselves.
Seven mana for a spell that won't finish the game? Tutoring for three instants should only be four or five mana.
LordZogar
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Firemind's Foresight is awesome for two reasons: It is an instant AND it lets you tutor for three cards. It has a high mana cost, but in a slow format (like Commander), you will have the mana for it, and you can take advantage of another player's turn to cast it, allowing for little time for opponents to respond to whatever sick combination of cards you are going to get. You don't need to find an instant kill combo to make this card worth your time. There are plenty of great instants for 1, 2, and 3 mana.
(Compare this with Jace's Ingenuity. Less mana, instead of , still an instant, but you don't get to choose the cards. Both cards are decent in the right situation.)
This isn't an all-inclusive list, but here's some to think about. (I have some white examples because I am probably going to run this card in my Zedruu EDH.)
Sure, this could have been more powerful. But as is I think it's just damn cool.
It gives EDH decks across the right colours incredible card selection, so long as you have a couple cards in each 'slot', easy to do with cards like Starstorm, Condescend, Crosis's Charm, etc.
In case you want a combo, someone else thought of this, but still really cool - Endstep search for Mystical Tutor, Increasing Vengeance and Seething Song. On upkeep, Mystical Tutor for Thunderous Wrath. Draw and miracle it. Then cast seething song and use the rest of your mana to triple copy the Wrath, leading to 20 damage.
Seriously, if you look at this in a deck that features The Unspeakable and the three cards used to acquire it it can do rather well. Especially with all the card draw the three spells provide.
Mephy.
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Your strange interaction with Isochron Scepter is not worth it. 2/5
Goatllama
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Every time I glance at this card I see "Firemind's Foreskin" and do a double take.
I totally agree with Brad Nelson on this card. (not confirmed canon) Niv Mizzet is very powerful and tries to become a planeswalker, so he get trained by Bolas. And nearly any planeswalker has their own power spell, like Sorin and Sorin's Vengeance. Now Niv Mizzet comes with this... thing and Bolas is like: "What the hell? This is supposed to be your spell? Did you ever see my Cruel Ultimatum? That's a spell!"
I'm surprised I'm not seeing any suggestions for getting spells like Comet Storm or Volcanic Geyser. Pair one of those with a Reiterate and you're gold.
absreim
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Oddly enough it sees play in Legacy in Show and Tell decks.
Instant speed tutors are hard to come by and are expensively costed (for good reason).
veritas723
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@mrkristopher "I'm surprised I'm not seeing any suggestions for getting spells like Comet Storm or Volcanic Geyser. Pair one of those with a Reiterate and you're gold."
you could certainly tutor for the cards, but you wouldn't want to copy them, as they'd replicate at x=0
manaderp
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@veritas: No, that's not true. Copied spells remember all choices made for them, including X-values, modes, and targets. (Which is why all or at least most spell-copying effects add "You may choose new targets for the copy." or similar.) It is true that casting a spell without paying its mana cost requires X to be zero (unless it's set elsewhere), but copying a spell is not casting a spell.
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Counterflux
Cyclonic Rift/mizzium mortars
and then like brainstorm or something
Peer Through Depths, and then Reach Through Mists.
Why?
Hmm... can't really say.
I can no longer see the word Foresight on this card. Thanks, mysterious stranger.
Too bad no one will ever let me keep a Malignus on the board long enough to pull that off.
Maybe overcosted, but super-appealing to draw-go archetype as well. 4/5 from me.
Like Isochron Scepter, I was depressed that the non-permanent type is only one half of your choices (technically).
It's a restrictive tutor, and flavourfully, I don't understand it.
An instant is a spell that's quick to cast. A sorcery is a spell that's slower to cast. Why can't Niv-Mizzet acquire a sorcery? Isn't he super smart? I mean, he IS a Dragon Wizard, and the guildmaster of the guild of mad scientists.
Maybe sorcery's are too slow for him. Maybe he frowns upon wizards who use them, thinking that people who cast slower spells are slow themselves.
I dunno, just grasping.
(Compare this with Jace's Ingenuity. Less mana,
This isn't an all-inclusive list, but here's some to think about. (I have some white examples because I am probably going to run this card in my Zedruu EDH.)
CMC 1: Brainstorm, Swords to Plowshares, Path to Exile, Stifle, Brand, Spell Burst, Lightning Bolt
CMC 2: Counterspell, Dissenchant, Trickbind, Mana Leak, Incinerate
CMC 3: Capsize, Cancel, Sphinx's Revelation, Psionic Blast, Flame Javelin
It gives EDH decks across the right colours incredible card selection, so long as you have a couple cards in each 'slot', easy to do with cards like Starstorm, Condescend, Crosis's Charm, etc.
In case you want a combo, someone else thought of this, but still really cool -
Endstep search for Mystical Tutor, Increasing Vengeance and Seething Song.
On upkeep, Mystical Tutor for Thunderous Wrath. Draw and miracle it. Then cast seething song and use the rest of your mana to triple copy the Wrath, leading to 20 damage.
And nearly any planeswalker has their own power spell, like Sorin and Sorin's Vengeance. Now Niv Mizzet comes with this... thing and Bolas is like: "What the hell? This is supposed to be your spell? Did you ever see my Cruel Ultimatum? That's a spell!"
tl;dr Where is Invoke the Firemind?
@metalevolence
And that's why Goblin Electromancers exists.
Instant speed tutors are hard to come by and are expensively costed (for good reason).
you could certainly tutor for the cards, but you wouldn't want to copy them, as they'd replicate at x=0