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I liked the old flavour text better.

Boo, They dropped the flavortext!!

Can't wait to do this to Sphinx's Revelation though.

4/5 Stars

A Wild Ricochet has appeared!

@infernox10
Wouldn't this be only as good as a Reverberate? Since Sphinx's Revelation says "You", I think that this spell wouldn't do anything to their copy, as it has no targets to choose. You would still get your own copy though

infernox10: revelation doesn't target and your copy would have X as 0. So meh.

So much fun. I don't even care about anything else. 5/5

@heegu the X of the copy would not be 0. when something is on the stack, X is whatever they paid for X.

As everyone has been saying, Sphinx's Revelation does not target: you will still get your own copy, but you can't gain 2X life and draw 2X cards unfortunately. I'm not 100% sure how it works with fuse cards, but from the rulings, it seems like using this on a Far and Away reads: "return two target creatures to their owner's hand, target player sacrifices two creatures", which can also be translated as "value", same with Turn and Burn. Unfortunately not that great against some of the other top spells in standard right now like Supreme Verdict, and, to a lesser extent, Unburial Rites (Unless they have an Arbor Elf in their gy). Still, I'm interested to see what people do with this...

Is Sphinx's Revelation making you mono-red deck sad?
How would you like to take that from them?
How would you like to take it from them twice?

EDIT:
@Kyrthain
You're right.
I'm much more sad now.
I guess the upside to running this over Reverberate would be the potential to copy a control deck's other spells.

Your great grandmother's great grandmother would be disappointed at the new flavour text

Ha this will create some serious hatred XD

Why are people talking about this as a hoser for Sphinx's Revelation when we have Skullcrack? This card is just an awesome counter against control and decks with lots of targeting, namely Black, Red and Blue decks.

Reverberate and Redirect an instant or sorcery for ! 5

The fun you can have when targeting a Wild Ricochet with a Wild Ricochet...
My God.

People are correct that this is a hoser card. It probably got reprinted as an answer to Abrupt Decay. If you use this correctly it can potentially be a 3-for-1. I personally can't wait to see someone play Abrupt Decay only to have it redirected at that person's Witchstalker with the copy targeting Liliana of the Veil.

Absolutely the most satisfying way to respond to a card like Time Ebb! Love it in draft

I once played an EDH game in my playgroup, a new guy was in it, he played time stretch, I played this, I then began on my 5 turns (my regular turn+ the extra 2 from the changed target + the extra 2 from the copy) in a row and said "this is why we don't play extra turn cards in EDH in this playgroup okay?" Since that day, everyone in the playgroup agreed to not play extra turn cards in EDH, and it keeps the game much more fun not having to wait for a guy take 4+ turns one after the other, which is so easy to pull off in EDH.

I don't understand why this is generating so much hate in comparison to reverberate. After all, this is reverberate + changing the targets for a spell for {2}{R}{R}. That doesn't seem to outrageous to me. It's like 2 reverberates, but you can use it on an opponent's spell and change their targets. I would actually see that as better than 2 reverberates, because it's kind of like reverberate + reverberate + cancel.

I saw this spell cast on opportunity in draft. Ouch

If heroic gets put on the stack before you cast a card like redirect, this will be a very useful card.

Opponent: "I'll play Time Stretch"

Me: "I'll play Wild Ricochet"

Opponent: Flips table and leaves.

Gonna try phasing one or two of these into my Mono-Red Standard deck and see how it fares.

As far as I'm concerned, it already looks like it hoses Celestial Flare, Abrupt Decay, Devour Flesh, and can give you a fair shot at continuing a game when Sphinx's Revelation hits the table - sure this won't stop their revelation (unless you pile on a Skullcrack to cover the lifegain), but you're still getting X life and X cards yourself, which can be as good as a counter as you can ask for.

Hero's Downfall and Dreadbore are both also in standard right now, and a ricochet can not only swing back around and cut down their own creatures (getting at least one spell through hexproof and similar effects) but can also cut down their 'walkers as well.

Pretty much EVERY standard deck right now has a card to which this could be an effective answer, in some way or another, even other RDW decks, and this card seems to fall right in that critical point where a single spell can either stop an aggro deck in its tracks or make for a decisive victory.

I think it's worth giving a shot, at least as an insurance policy.

What traumatizing situations this can make.....

I had my 10 Mana Cryptic Command thrown back at me twice yesterday, in a three-way commander match.

That shit hurts.

Such a brutally disappointing card. I have had high hopes for it dashed many times.
It can turn a one-shot kill spell against you into two for you...

But generally just sits in your hand causing you grief. Four mana is a ton to leave open, and it taunts you whenever an activated or triggered ability nails you.

Ricochet Trap and Shunt seem less awful. When will they make a red that does spells, activated AND triggered abilities?

Yeah, I know those two don't copy the spell, but increasing the odds of actually getting to use it is HUGE.