Given that this card cannot do anything alone, cc5 is rather disappointing for this card. When using it in a burn deck for example, you can easily get a Pyroclasm / Volcanic Fallout effect, but for at least six mana and two cards.
ultratog1028
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(12 votes)
everyone knows about the monkeys on Uktabi Oragataun but few know of the men on Radiate.
holgir
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
By the time you reach 7 mana, your opponents' hands should be almost empty. Then play Metamorphose and this. The real fun begins when you put their lands on top of their libraries first. Use Unsummon or similar bounce as backup next turn (or immediately if you have mana left) in case they had anything significant to put into play.
You do realize that using this with a kicked Rite of Replication would cost 14 mana, right? Might as well go and cast Emrakul in that case.
heisthepainkiller
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Maybe not very practical but it is a very fun and interesting card. Very fun in my Jhoira of the Ghitu EDH deck, copying extremely expensive spells loads can be a hell of a laugh.
Daikoru
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
To use on a Path to Exile, Exile every targettable creature and get as many lands in play! Too bad for your opponent if he doesn't have any basic land :D
Dr.Pingas
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This. And Hivemind. Don't do it.
It makes the game a draw unless you're REALLY careful. If that changes in the near future, it's my fault.
How about... Radiating a Twincast or reverberate on any card that does damage to a player? Lightning bolt for infinite damage? Sounds like a cool idea.
How it works: Cast Lightning bolt, cast Twincast/Reverberate on the bolt, then radiate the twincast/reverberate. A new twin/rev will target the bolt and the radiate, your new radiate targets the twin/rev... Until you do as much damage as you need to kill everyone at the multiplayer table, since it's a 3 card 8 mana combo, you'll need a multiplayer game to do it.
... Nevermind, it doesn't target a permanent or player, it targets a spell. Bollocks.
Yes, cc5 is high, but this card can be a game breaker if you can draw the game out long enough. Radiate a Temporal Spring late in the game, and for eight mana, you get to stack your library and your opponent's library however you see fit.
If you have more mana than you should ever reasonably have, this would be great fun with a Brightflame. Especially playing against any kind of token deck.
Excuse me everyone, all of your permanents are destroyed.
Kryptnyt
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@achillesbow You don't need to control the Rite. You can hit an opponent's rite with this. @TheMurderousKitten That doesn't work that well because as each copy resolves fewer creatures will be on the battlefield to die to it. You'd be better off playing something like Painter's Servant to turn them all one color before a big brightflame.
Asmodi0000
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Lightning Helix wouldn't be a bad mix with this card. 3 damage to each creature and each player, and you gain 3 life for each? In a multiplayer game, that lifegain would likely be fairly dramatic. 7 mana might seem a bit much, but it would be similar to casting a 7 mana brightflame, except it hits all targetable players and creatures.
KicktheCAN also makes a strong point, in that cantrips make good use of this card. Any of the shadowmoor wisps cards let you draw a card for every creature on the battlefield for 6 mana, which is a solid deal. Or, if you wanted to be pretty crazy, you could use it on Twitch to either untap everything (including the lands you used to cast twitch and radiate) or tap everything, all while drawing an impressive amount of cards. If you were just in the mood for tapping, Ice would serve fine.
Feathermind
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(8 votes)
"Johnny, did you bring enough lightning bolts for the whole class?" No Ma'am, but I have a solution.
Lash_of_Dragonbreath
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
@Ragamander I think you meant "Fun against a kicked Rite of Replication." Just let this sit in your hand in multiplayer until someone plays something interesting.
Buderus
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
@ Mr. Wimples: LOVE IT :D They'd be chasing you out of the building haha
feedbacker
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
This card is pretty wild, it will most likely be a kill card, defensive card or a destroy almost everything type counter card. Thats some very good versatility for 5, I hope different versions of this appear in future sets
Tarnium
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Arc Blade and this in EDH as win condition anyone ?
Barjin-N-Blastum
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Question: Let's say I cast...oh I dunno, lightning bolt in a multi-player game...I often play in 5 or 6 person games, let's say 5...and for giggles there's 27 creatures in play. Radiate basically says all legal targets of single target spells get a copy played on them...so 32 lightning bolts hit the stack. What happens if I RADIATE my RADIATE? My personal feeling is that every legitimate target for a radiate on the stack gets hit, and there's currently 32 targets, 32x32 is...1024. Do 1024 more lightning bolts show up? Essentially do 32 MORE lightning bolts hit every legal target? Edit: Nevermind, radiate doesn't itself target a permanent or player. duhr.
Totema
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Heh, it's kinda like the beta-version of Overload.
This + Chaos warp is NOT a makeshift warpworld. In fact its strictly worse unless you don't hit a single instant or sorcery. Once one of those are on the top, Your not going to get any more chaos warps as it will keep putting the instant or scorcery on the top of your deck.
IF however you get Sensi's top and a few lands, then you can make sure that you get the right top deck for the resolution.
Haha, I love this card with Ass Whupin'. Use Booster Tutor to get it during an Unglued tournament or something.
Arachnos
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Now everything can have Overload, for the low, low cost of 5.
Petertracy
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Wots this? You tried to Beast Within my enchantment? "Attention everyone at the table, prepare for the ultimate showdown."
raven1man
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Actually Rancid_Raptor your wrong. There will be a copy of chaos warp for each target permanent. You would resolve each copy one at a time which means you would shuffle one permanent into your deck then reveal. You would then shuffle the next one and keep doing that. So this would be about the same as warp world.
I should write a program that will calculate the outcome of a tacky player that has a Hive Mind and Grip of Chaos out, and casts a Shock and then responds to it by casting a Radiate. All of the possible Burn targets, creatures and players, would be label from 1 to n or something and the program would output how much damage each target received. Of course, the outcome would be different each time. Grip of Chaos would make this process faster since nobody gets to pick any targets. So someone, not me, could make this deck and if it goes off they can run the program to see what goes down.
EDIT: My bad, the game would go on indefinitely and draw if a Radiate targets another radiate with other radiates on the stack.
Without both Grip of Chaos and Hivemind you could run Mindbreak Trap or Nivmagus Elemental to deliberately kill your opponents after letting a Radiate chain happen. That requires 4 Radiates to be on the stack at the same time... and some other burn/draw spell of course.
Tailcracker
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Aaah, this is going to be super fun with dack fayden.
D2Vincent
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
So, if I radiated, say a Volt Charge, and then copied that radiate to target the original, would I radiate for each copy of that card?
Flashbanged
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Radiated a Worst Fears in a 5 player game. My life's goals are complete.
Sir_Read-a-Lot
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@enchantment removal:
Radiate doesn't chain. It can only target spells that target permanents or players, and radiate doesn't qualify.
I've tried to do this too, though. It's an easy mistake to make.
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When using it in a burn deck for example, you can easily get a Pyroclasm / Volcanic Fallout effect, but for at least six mana and two cards.
It makes the game a draw unless you're REALLY careful.
If that changes in the near future, it's my fault.
How it works: Cast Lightning bolt, cast Twincast/Reverberate on the bolt, then radiate the twincast/reverberate. A new twin/rev will target the bolt and the radiate, your new radiate targets the twin/rev... Until you do as much damage as you need to kill everyone at the multiplayer table, since it's a 3 card 8 mana combo, you'll need a multiplayer game to do it.
... Nevermind, it doesn't target a permanent or player, it targets a spell. Bollocks.
Varchild's War-Riders and Forbidden Orchard
or use Humility
and then laugh, deep belly laugh
I wished I had Grip of Chaos in play. Then I could've done more stuff.
Although Grip of Chaos + Hive Mind + Radiate is just wrong.
2. Sleight of Mind "silver" to "black"
3. Stand up so you can see the entire room
4. Play Radiate
Excuse me everyone, all of your permanents are destroyed.
You don't need to control the Rite. You can hit an opponent's rite with this.
@TheMurderousKitten
That doesn't work that well because as each copy resolves fewer creatures will be on the battlefield to die to it. You'd be better off playing something like Painter's Servant to turn them all one color before a big brightflame.
KicktheCAN also makes a strong point, in that cantrips make good use of this card.
Any of the shadowmoor wisps cards let you draw a card for every creature on the battlefield for 6 mana, which is a solid deal. Or, if you wanted to be pretty crazy, you could use it on Twitch to either untap everything (including the lands you used to cast twitch and radiate) or tap everything, all while drawing an impressive amount of cards. If you were just in the mood for tapping, Ice would serve fine.
No Ma'am, but I have a solution.
I think you meant "Fun against a kicked Rite of Replication."
Just let this sit in your hand in multiplayer until someone plays something interesting.
IF however you get Sensi's top and a few lands, then you can make sure that you get the right top deck for the resolution.
"Attention everyone at the table, prepare for the ultimate showdown."
I should write a program that will calculate the outcome of a tacky player that has a Hive Mind and Grip of Chaos out, and casts a Shock and then responds to it by casting a Radiate. All of the possible Burn targets, creatures and players, would be label from 1 to n or something and the program would output how much damage each target received. Of course, the outcome would be different each time. Grip of Chaos would make this process faster since nobody gets to pick any targets. So someone, not me, could make this deck and if it goes off they can run the program to see what goes down.
EDIT: My bad, the game would go on indefinitely and draw if a Radiate targets another radiate with other radiates on the stack.
Without both Grip of Chaos and Hivemind you could run Mindbreak Trap or Nivmagus Elemental to deliberately kill your opponents after letting a Radiate chain happen. That requires 4 Radiates to be on the stack at the same time... and some other burn/draw spell of course.
Radiate doesn't chain. It can only target spells that target permanents or players, and radiate doesn't qualify.
I've tried to do this too, though. It's an easy mistake to make.