Great card in hellbent/madness decks. But what really makes this card appealing is the hilarious flavor text.
Draugnor
★☆☆☆☆ (1.1/5.0)(7 votes)
Absolutely devastating when discarding a full hand of 7 cards. 7 damage to 7 creatures typically clears the board, even against a wurm deck.
My question is can you target the same creature multiple times? Discard 7 cards to do 49 damage to a single player?
ScissorsLizard
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(10 votes)
@Draugnor: That's the interesting thing about this card. You can discard 7 cards, but you have to have 7 different targets. The more power you put behind it, the bigger the storm has to become.
Besides, if you could deal 49 damage to a player on turn 1, this card might be considered a bit overpowered.
Etregan
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(10 votes)
This is so much better than One With Nothing in a hellbent deck.
Superllama12
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(4 votes)
Reeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaally cool concept, great flavor, great power, only downside is that you have to have X targets, which means you may have to target yourself/your own creature...but hey, it can be great with Chandra Ablaze
scumbling1
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(4 votes)
@ Draugnor: No, you can't target anything more than once. The key operator here is "each of X targets". It would be broken beyond belief if it could hit a single target multiple times.
Turn one: Play mountain. Cast Firestorm, discarding five cards; you deal your opponent five damage five times.
It would be a one-mana, one-card instant victory.
MegaHertz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
my gess is that you must plug the same amunt of tagets as the amount of damage. so you can not target the same target x times...
Richochet_Shaman
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Begs to be used in a red Chandra Ablaze instant/sorcerry abuse deck.
armogohma
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(6 votes)
Is anybody else saddened by the flavor text?
mlanier131
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Dredges last and greatest hope against mental misstep.
Huffytreefolkman
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
rakdos all the way. i'd love to have this card if an opponent played forced fruitions on me this if
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★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I'm really interested in how clouds can condense into fire...
This is a beautifully balanced card, congratulations to Wizards R&D for perfecting it.
Todris052
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
This is so amazing. Imagine, just IMAGINE what could this do with Fiery Temper and Dark Withering. discard two, pay : deal 2 damage to two target creatures or players, deal 3 damage to target creature or player, and destroy a non-black creature. *shudder*
Klutz42
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Bah. Too bad it isn't "Up to X target creatures and/or players" Otherwise you could combo it with 2 Lotus Blooms, and a discarded Increasing Vengeance with a hand of 8 for an easy turn 5 win. Otherwise it's an insta-draw for 21 damage to both you and your opponent. But that doesn't mean it wouldn't be epic in a 22-way multiplayer match! =3
Regardless, It will no doubt make for great creature removal in any red spell deck that lacks them.
Jormgund
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
4.5/5 Instant speed buffs this up nicely. Plus, I used to use Ignorant Bliss, sigh, what a fool I was...
Scary in my friend's Mind Unbound deck. It usually kills something for each card discarded, and is left with card disadvantage of just one. But at instant speed, and for just one mana, it is a huge tempo boost against the swarm. Sometimes it is also a fog. It also leads to absolutely epic moments.
ChaswellQuint
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I think you are overrating this card. It's very situational. After a wheel of fortune, Really? You just filled your opponents hand with 7 cards and you are going to throw your away? You have to HAVE enough targets to cast it, it doesn't always clear the board of wurms because the higher to toughness, the more cards you have to throw away. IF your opponent can put out wurms with 7 toughness, are you going to throw your hand away to clear the board?
This card IMO is best used almost as a tempo play at the end of your opponents turn to dust off their early start, I typically end up playing this for 2 or 3. If you played it for 3 you lose four cards, but if you hit four creatures then good because then they are all one-for one. You aren't up a card, and if you have to target yourself or your opponent then you are down a card or two. Sure you can play this madness, but that is not going to win most of the time because you are giving up options for damage.
I like this card best as a splash, because it turns every card in your hand into red removal, and that can be good in non-red decks in the right situation.
Throw together, in a deck, four of these, four Treasure Hunts, some searching spells for both of them, and bucketloads of land. Come the fourth turn, you've got a Treasure Hunt and a Firestorm in your hand. You play the Hunt, drawing probably about 30 land and something else. You Firestorm them for 30. If this is an FFA, you Firestorm up to 30 different creatures or players for 30. This card is completely ridiculous.
Cyberium
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
A weakness of this card is that if you want higher damage you need more targets. It's far more effective against a creature deck than a control deck, thus limited its application.
That said, I'd only use Firestorm where discarding is beneficial, such as hellbent, madness, or with phoenixes, for creature killing there are less restrictive options.
@Doghealer: With Enter the Infinite, if you draw, for example, 30 cards, you had better have 30 targets for Firestorm.
blurrymadness
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Quite good with Land Tax. Tax fetches your mountain(s) and your discard fodder. Just two activations allows you a wipe of the opponent's board in almost any situation.
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My question is can you target the same creature multiple times? Discard 7 cards to do 49 damage to a single player?
Besides, if you could deal 49 damage to a player on turn 1, this card might be considered a bit overpowered.
Turn one: Play mountain. Cast Firestorm, discarding five cards; you deal your opponent five damage five times.
It would be a one-mana, one-card instant victory.
Regardless, It will no doubt make for great creature removal in any red spell deck that lacks them.
It usually kills something for each card discarded, and is left with card disadvantage of just one. But at instant speed, and for just one mana, it is a huge tempo boost against the swarm. Sometimes it is also a fog. It also leads to absolutely epic moments.
This card IMO is best used almost as a tempo play at the end of your opponents turn to dust off their early start, I typically end up playing this for 2 or 3. If you played it for 3 you lose four cards, but if you hit four creatures then good because then they are all one-for one. You aren't up a card, and if you have to target yourself or your opponent then you are down a card or two. Sure you can play this madness, but that is not going to win most of the time because you are giving up options for damage.
I like this card best as a splash, because it turns every card in your hand into red removal, and that can be good in non-red decks in the right situation.
That said, I'd only use Firestorm where discarding is beneficial, such as hellbent, madness, or with phoenixes, for creature killing there are less restrictive options.
Am I winning yet?
Life from the Loam is good here as well.
How about:
Bloodghast
Squee
Chandra's Pheonix
Firebolt
Fiery Temper
Faithless Looting (which is also excellent with land tax/loam)