Typical cheap Blue common card with flying. Better than Grizzy Bears, but not as good as Suntail Hawk, even though it has 1 point more Toughness. If I was playing White/Blue, I'd take Suntail Hawk over it, but it's an OK card. IT's extra point of Toughness makes it OK.
2.5
I read in an article that the initial design was to make it a Legendary creature.
Zulp
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(27 votes)
Strictly better than oatmeal. Grind it up and add milk. Heat to taste. Sugar is optional.
Ruztyz
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(12 votes)
One time, me and my friend were trading, and I saw this card... I was like "Whoa! A 1/2 Flier for two? And in Blue? This is rididculous!" So I traded him my playset of Tarmogoyf. "Its only a 0/1..." I said. He looked at me funny.
Selez
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(7 votes)
This is depressing, but there is a card that is strictly worse than Storm Crow. Let's just ban Sea Eagle right now.
Storm Crow mocks your feeble attempts to sully its greatness with sarcasm. Such things will not go unpunished in the Glorious People's Republic of Storm Crow.
Be ever vigilant, comrades!*
*Vigilance is one of the eight creature keywords approved by Grand Comrade Storm Crow.
Still can't beat the card advantage that chimney imp gives. THATS INSANE.
Jo3yJoJo
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(9 votes)
One word for this card. Broken.
DarthKithkin
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(6 votes)
R & D please bring this card back in M11 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I need to bring my storm crow deck to standard tournaments again!
Gomorrah
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(14 votes)
If I could I'd make a deck with 58 Storm Crows and 2 Islands. That's probably why Wizards made the max 4 rule, because of this beast of a card.
Vizzerdrix80
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(7 votes)
I have the great fortune of possessing a holographic Storm Crow. I will treasure this beautiful beast forever, easily worth the trade for my Black Lotus.
steves_sauce
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(12 votes)
Storm Crow is the kind of card you can really sit down and have a b33r with.
-Storm Crow for President 2012
TheRebel
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(23 votes)
Storm Crow stole my girlfriend. True story.
bijart_dauth
★☆☆☆☆ (1.1/5.0)(16 votes)
why does evryone say storm crow is so awsome! its just a 1/2 flier for 2. it doesent even have an ability! besides, in a good blue deck. you should be saving that 2 mana for mana leaks and counterspells. who wins by damage in a blue deck!
Jem54
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(5 votes)
BEST. CARD. EVER.
Ajani_is_da_man
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(7 votes)
Type your coStill can't beat the card advantage that chimney imp gives. THATS INSANE. mment here.
Pugnator
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(7 votes)
Storm Crow is my mentor and long time firend, it's just so overpowered
5/5
Falos
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(22 votes)
Storm Crow cured my AIDs!
greenandblack
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(12 votes)
gotta love this card...
blindthrall
★☆☆☆☆ (1.9/5.0)(9 votes)
I gotta admit, I don't get the joke. It's not hilariously bad like Chimney Imp, it's functional. I've actually used the green version.
StreamHopper
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(14 votes)
They didn't have to break the game in half. Wizards is on a road to self destruction if they keep printing cards like this. Opened one at the pre-release, and everyone cried.
Hibron
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(5 votes)
One would think that a card this good would have a 5/5 rating. I mean, look at this! The rating is even worse than Wrath of God! Ridiculous!
spectermonger
★★★☆☆ (3.4/5.0)(9 votes)
After I played my Progenitus somebody just had to drop this...my opponent swung and the crow flew right by Progenitus for the win. Just broken...
CJM2
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(8 votes)
REPRINT IN M11 PLEASE.
lukey57
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(5 votes)
strictly worse than wood elemental
Sironos
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(9 votes)
Wizards are planning a theme deck: Storm crows vs chimney imps, gonna be apocalyptic!
ratchet1215
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(7 votes)
So crap like Black Lotus and the Moxen are restricted in Vintage and yet this guy was never ONCE pulled from Standard. Sometimes I just don't understand the DCI.
It really upsets me that people are treating this card like a joke. I played it against a friend of mine and I just wailed on him with it for the rest of the game until he was left huddled in the corner, shaking uncontrollably. I thought it was pretty funny at first, but he just kept on. He just sat there...shivering. The doctors say that with a few years of therapy, he might get to a level where he can work as a bagger at a grocery store or something but he'll probably never be able to walk again; certainly, he'll never be back to normal. What this card does to people...there's nothing funny about it.
orangesuitcases
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(7 votes)
do people seriously not like this card? Because it's amazing.
Tinkerermcmuffin
★★☆☆☆ (2.4/5.0)(7 votes)
Rumour has it that WOTC wanted to print a "Form of the Storm Crow" enchantment, but playtesters deemed it as insanely powerful and incoherent flavorwise. Planeswalkers becoming an overgodly being would be UberPowered and blasphemy.
PolskiSuzeren
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(7 votes)
what's better than a storm crow?
a FOIL storm crow.
What's better than a FOIL storm crow?
Your lifetime achievements. Ha, no, only joking. Foil storm crow is the god of all that is good and tasty.
A half rating just because there are better two drops. it's a decent flyer with a barely usable creature type in today's standard. there are much better cards out there.
Great card, but it's nothing compared to the greatness that is Mogg Jailer.
xDavid
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(3 votes)
Courier Hawk is strictly better but Storm Crow is AWESOME
OutlawD1
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(5 votes)
Please STOP printing this OP card wizards
Revelation666
★★★☆☆ (3.4/5.0)(10 votes)
I put Storm Crow under my pillow when I go to sleep. It keeps me safe at night.
efletcher
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(18 votes)
My friend opened this card in a booster, and i never fully recovered. Every game i would happily play my Tarmogoyf only to see his damn Storm Crow drop the same turn. If it wasnt that then it was turn five where I played my Baneslayer Angel, only to find him respond with a Chimney Imp. I never stood a chance to such powerful creatures.
THIS CARD MADE ME QUIT MAGIC
Jamesb8
★☆☆☆☆ (1.6/5.0)(7 votes)
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
My favourite card.
But i'm confused apparently it's strictl better than black lotus which is strictly better than a plains which is strictly better than a baneslayer which is also strictly better than a storm crow.
One of those must be wrong and i think it's
baneslayer being strictly better than a storm crow unpossible.
but in all seriousness chimney imp just plains outclasses this.
Dr.Pingas
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(6 votes)
Clearly, noone here has ever seen the horrors of a Horned Turtle. Maybe not strictly better, persay, but much more humiliating. Jokes aside, I've seen a single horned turtle with flying win draft matches. That's what happens when you just don't have enough Storm Crow.
izzet_guild_mage
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(8 votes)
Agreed, Courier Hawk is way too flashy. It's like the Baneslayer Angel of two mana birds. This guy, he's where it's at.
UndecidedLetter
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(42 votes)
Could you sacrifice Storm Crow to complete your mission?
Could you watch it die?
Storm Crow is your shield, Storm Crow is your sword.
Storm Crow has defied Gods and Demons.
MTG Players, I can't tell you everything. It isn't safe. R&D...they know I'm in the system.
Inside the Storm Crow deck, there's a solution. A way to stop the Chimney Imps, without summoning the remaining Storm Crows.
You will become the Storm Crow-est we can make you.
You will be the protectors of MTG and all her subsequent expansions.
Don't make a Storm Crow a promise, if you know you can't keep it.
Unleash the Storm Crow!
One Storm Crow to bring them all, one Storm Crow to find them. One Storm Crow to rule them all, and in the darkness, bind them.
In place of Wizards of the Coast you shall have a Storm Crow, not dark but blue and only two converted mana cost. With great artwork and flying, and it's amazingly a 1/2! All share love Storm Crow and despair...
Your overconfidence in Storm Crow is your weakness.
Your belief that anything else could possibly best it is yours.
Learn to wield the power of the Storm Crow and you will unleash a power greater than any other. The power, to save MTG's life.
Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker's Abilities
+3 Destroy Target non Storm Crow permanent
-2 Gain control of target non-Storm Crow Creature
-9 Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker deals seven damage to target player. That player discards seven non-Storm Crow cards, then sacrifices seven non-Storm Corw permananets.
All the ideals you hold to be true and good in this world...do not exist...Storm Crow, does.
BTW, Storm Crow is allied with Welkin Tern...
He has a hidden effect on the back. When Storm Crow enters play, destroy all other permanents, they can't be regenerated, then gain control of target player's soul. Treat this player's soul as a 0/1 token with: "Sacrifice target player's soul to Chimney Imp: Put a token that's a copy of Storm Crow into play."
Got one in the pre-release for rise of eldrazi, yes, for rise of eldrazi. Simply amazing card.
Maximillini86
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(6 votes)
Storm Crow is so beastly that it couldn't even beat itself in a fight!
OpeeFomenom
★★★☆☆ (3.4/5.0)(15 votes)
@Paleopaladin First off, that's an awesome username. I think the big reason this card heralds so many jokes is the shear fact of its mediocrity. It just happened to be the card that was so good at being average, it got made fun of. You either call it bad in comparison to utterly horrible cards to get some people to scratch their heads at your comment or you call it amazing for the likewise result. I think the point was simply to confuse and people caught on and spread the confusion.
novasun
★★☆☆☆ (2.6/5.0)(8 votes)
b.f.m. meet your match
Kamidii
★★☆☆☆ (2.7/5.0)(6 votes)
So very good for its simplicity
high_tide_niv
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(8 votes)
who needs stroke of genius in high tide. throw in 4 of these and Kangee, Aerie Keeper
To put it lightly, this is one of the greatest cards in existence, i run 4 in my mono black punish deck and they always seem to win me the game.
GengilOrbios
★★☆☆☆ (2.9/5.0)(5 votes)
say goodbye to emrakul and all these flying creatures! they are nothing against the storm crow!
FatLenny
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(59 votes)
There's a reason a group of crows is called a murder.
ninjaduckie
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(6 votes)
Im sorry but. I don't get any of this.......Is Storm Crow like "the mullet" of Magic or something?
Your.Chubby.Buddy
★★★☆☆ (3.4/5.0)(6 votes)
Wow! Just wow! a card of this magnitude deserves a spot as a 4 of in Vintage. Imagine if you will, turn one land, mox, Crow. Turn two, hit your opponent for one! My god, that puts them on a 20 turn clock, and in Vintage that is absurd! 5 stars!
I was playing a friend with my casual sliver deck. I had just played a kicked Rite of Replication on my Might Sliver, so I had 18 unblockable, double striking, lifelinking, shrouded, etc. 15/15 creatures. On the next turn, he played this card. I couldn't believe my eyes. I looked at the card, read it over a couple of times, and scooped. How could a couple of comparatively vanilla 15/15's stand up to this? Plus, it rhymed. "Descending" and "unending?" How cool is that?
I was an instant convert. The next day, I made a mono blue deck with 56 islands and a playset of these as the only win condition. I took it to a local tournament and showed it off to a couple of people there ("LOOK AT THIS AND WEEP!!!!"). Based on the nervous laughter and expressions of disbelief ("Is this some sort of sick joke?") that I got, I could tell that they were terrified of the sheer power of the storm crow.
Also, I know that there are a lot of haters out there who think, "This card sucks." I have a question for you. Actually, three: Does Vengevine have flying? Can you attack for one every turn with your Jace, the Mind Sculptor? Does Bloodbraid Elf cost two mana? It doesn't. It's fine by me if you all want to blow your money on forty-dollar Baneslayer Angels (which, by the way, die to doom blade just the same). I'm sticking with this bad boy here.
KikiJikiTiki
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(4 votes)
Infinite storm into haze of rage, then swing with the crow. It's called Storm Crow for a reason. And you thought it was scary before.
Critiquer
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(16 votes)
What started out as a normal game of magic for me quickly ended in disaster. My opponent started the game with Gemstone Caverns in play then he discarded a Island and used this cards ability to give himself one mana Elvish Spirit Guide Then he played Flash and brought Protean Hulk from his hand into play, but since he couldnt play Flash's additional cost, Protean hulk was buried. Then he used its abillity to bring 3 Storm Crow's into play and 4 Black Lotus's. then turn one started (he went first) and sacc'd 3 lotus's to give himself 9 mana then he played a quicksilver gargantuan which copied storm crow. This was all before on turn 1.then on turn 2 sacced his remaining Lotus and played and island, then played 2 berserk's plus giant growth, he played the Growth and berserk number 1 on the gargantuan, and a berserk on another storm crow. hitting me for a total of 21 damage. second turn.
I will never play magic again. EVER
joemercer
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(11 votes)
While it's true most Crows are cruel, the Storm Crow seems to take particular glee in the misery of others, often tormenting its victims much like a cat plays with a mouse before delivering the final blow.
Robface
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(5 votes)
This card is the reason babies cry.
Blackworm_Bloodworm
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(7 votes)
@FatLenny: Okay, that made me *** myself laughing. Props to you!
ICEFANG13
★★☆☆☆ (2.1/5.0)(6 votes)
"Why should I welcome you? Gandalf Storm Crow" (King Theodin)
Why the heck would he say that??
ZombieSnail
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(5 votes)
need it...
*drives off to get one*
Shadoflaam
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(12 votes)
This was created during Chuck Norris's brief run as lead designer at R&D. His run was brief because Storm Crow kicked his @$$ and made Richard Garfield (its pawn) replace him. BTW I got a whole playset of 'em for this stupid Worldwake crap thing called Jake the Brain Melder or something. Guy's definitely still crying.
ElTaco
★☆☆☆☆ (1.4/5.0)(5 votes)
Combos with Eldrazi con***ion
slicedbeardman
★☆☆☆☆ (1.4/5.0)(5 votes)
-this card is SO reasonable it's scary-
DellamorteDellamore0
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(4 votes)
All hail Lord Storm Crow
NARFNra
★★☆☆☆ (2.9/5.0)(5 votes)
Progenitus is probably the only damn thing I'd trust to deal with the bad boy. But really, they gave the fckr flying? Progenitus can't do crap before Storm Crow busts a cap in his summoners @$$
alblast
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
@ Critiquer
That sucks. I really hate superfast decks like that, nobody does. Sure the deck might have taken some time to make, it won't take much thought playing it, because it is like playing a ***. That person is basically playing solitare. That said magic can still be a lot of fun in casual.
Storm Crow is so badass. You remember him from such films as Alfred Hitch***'s The Birds.
$75 dollars buys you 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor or roughly 300 storm crow. If that's not card advantage, I don't know what is...
Storm Crow Army:1 Other "better" cards: 0
infernox10
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(6 votes)
Whenever two mana is produced, one being blue,
It's EVERY gamer's reaction to assume it's a Storm Crow,
And when it's not,
The world sighs with relief.
Bursama
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.7/5.0)(3 votes)
"Strictly better than Storm Crow" "Strictly worse than Storm Crow".
shockmoney
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
gandalf rocks the storm crow. i'd splash some blue asap.
Rillennil
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(22 votes)
I just had a frightening thought.
What happens if you play a Storm Crow on your turn, and your opponent plays a Storm Crow on the next turn? Somehow, I imagine the result being very much like a division by zero. Or two black holes swallowing each other up. Or a triple rainbow that ends in a hail of fire.
freakmaw
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
When this is played against me, I have no answers. I usually never take the easy way out, but I straight up concede when this bad boy hits the table.
If this isn't proof of Storm Crows awesome power I don't know what is!!
Removal
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(20 votes)
After I beat someone with it, I usually just leave it on the table at the game store. I assume that even the game ending can't get this thing out of play.
My game store started complaining because people are scared to use the tables, and the staff are afraid to clean them up.
Another protip: If you don't have islands, splash blue so you can run 4.
Yozuk
★★☆☆☆ (2.9/5.0)(7 votes)
I was running a Game at a con not too long ago. I had to ban this card from being Played. Its just too powerful! black lotus? the Moxs? Unhinged/unglued cards? Fine! But Storm crow! I almost flipped the table.
HolyOrdersX2
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(12 votes)
If you are foolish enough to play non-Storm crow creatures before playing storm crow, and your opponent casts a storm crow, you have a very brief amount of time, maybe half a turn, to cast Mirrorweave on the Storm crow before it annihilates your non-storm crow creatures. This will turn your creatures into storm crows for a turn, giving you time to wise up and cast your own storm crow on your own turn. If you are smart, you will play a kicked Rite of Replication on the same turn, ensuring you have more storm crows than your opponent. Remember, the key to victory in Magic is to always have more storm crows than the other guy.
this bad boy is the unsung power house that single-handedly holds together the power 9. without it black lotus, the moxes, time walk, and all those other inferior cards would truly be nothing. it really should be called the power 10
Ava_Adore
★★☆☆☆ (2.6/5.0)(6 votes)
Powercreep at its worst, i remember when they where gonna give this guy an ability
"1: target creature you control gets +1/-1 until eot, if that creature is put into a graveyard this turn draw two cards"
But they decided against it as it was already broken, and it was such a weak ability next to the one it already has this sucker can fly (not even superman can do that), they knew when this bad bird came out everyone was gonna be playing 4 copies of him no matter what deck they had.
If anyone wants an unofficial storm crow shirt i think this fits very well. I'm sure that was the artists intention anyway http://shirt.woot.com/friends.aspx?k=17702
ridiculousricky
★☆☆☆☆ (1.7/5.0)(14 votes)
...i don't get it. why is he so broken?
__Silence__
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(7 votes)
@avatarofHOE actually $75 buys 258 FOIL storm crows at Troll and toad and Jace costs $98 for non-foil Pfft Storm crow is clearly better in EVERY way... For instance they are allowed to straight on attack jace but they cant do that to the storm crow!!
boldlygonowhere
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(7 votes)
Wow. No wonder this wasn't reprinted in Tenth Edition, he's so broken. Maybe now that we've got mythic rarity he'll get printed in m12. One can only hope though.
TheDonMega
★★☆☆☆ (2.9/5.0)(7 votes)
Fun Fact If you equip storm crow with a jitte your opponent will spontaneously combust due to the fact you just broke magic.
MarlinFlake
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(11 votes)
Turn 1: Island Turn 2: Another land, and Storm Crow Turn 3: ??? Turn 4: WINNING
Yoktes
★★☆☆☆ (2.9/5.0)(7 votes)
when my friend walked in with one of these in his pocket, the room exsploded
when he played it, he whent super sayian 3 and the building blew up
when he killed me with it, i whent and got 4 of em and built a mono blue deck
if you want your local game shop to survive your next vintage turny, i advise you play with these banned of invest in titanium walls
blink182zombies
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(6 votes)
I own 28 copies of this card. It wins games.
Duskdale_Wurm
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(5 votes)
389 votes?!?! Yea I knew I have one really good card to rate and comment, besides Chimney Imp.
CROW, YOU ROCK!
Pontiac
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(9 votes)
Man I remember a guy attacked me with one of these, then he flung it at me with fling, I took 2 damage! well needless to say I was so traumatized by the experience of it I just quit the game, ran home and hid under my bed rocking back and forth clutching a crucifix.
To think I saw a real Storm Crow, not one of those collector edition ones, or the gold boardered ones from the Tourny decks, but the real thing! if I ever get over my fear I'll ask him if he'll trade me one for my two beta moxes.....probably not though....only an idiot would make that deal....and we all know idiots don't use Storm Crows riiight?
BrianPaone
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(45 votes)
So.
Storm Crow beat me in a one-on-one match this evening. True story. Still figuring out how.
I mean... we were playing SCRABBLE. That card is just way too overpowered if all that's going to be happening.
Tetsu_tora
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Not sure who said it first, but I think this card on a t-shirt with LIVE SIDEWAYS! on it would be super funny.
That being said, in a BU deck w/ howl from beyond it might really pull it's weight.
land_comment
★☆☆☆☆ (1.1/5.0)(24 votes)
Oh, please. This sucks. 0.5/5.
dragonking987
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(4 votes)
such a unfair card I play my Emrakul, the Aeons Torn only to watch storm Corw body slam it!
land_comment dont Joke like that storm crow deserves respect.
shadmed
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(6 votes)
I heard Storm Crow was born a planeswalker.
BaneSlayerKirby
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(6 votes)
Mythic Rare broken Storm Crow planeswalker in the next Un-set please.
So last night a friend and I were playing some hot, consensual Magic: The Gathering, and I had just laid down my second island. Of course, you all know what that means. I smiled maniacally and played a Storm Crow.
My opponent then proceeded to die. Like, I'm not talking about life points, here. He actually physically died. He took one look at my Storm Crow and all of his skin melted off like that one scene from Indiana Jones. It was pretty awesome, except now my entire playset of Storm Crows is sitting in the county jail, awaiting a trial for first-degree murder. My lawyers are optimistic though that we can lower the penalty to manslaughter, since Storm Crow doesn't mean to be the ridiculously broken card it is, it was just born that way when Jace, the Mind Sculptur and Black Lotus had a power-baby in the center of the Blind Eternities. So technically, it's not its fault.
So yeah. This card wins games. Play it.
Psuedonaut
★★★☆☆ (4.0/5.0)(13 votes)
T1: Cards in Hand, Black Lotus, Black Lotus, Black Lotus, Black Lotus, Dark Ritual, Dark Ritual, Mox Lotus. Thankfully the enemy started first so you can play Johnny, Combo Player. Thankfully, you also have infinite mana. First, I whip out four Doubling Seasons, then 4 minion reflectors then I toss out 4(+256) Renegade Dopplegangers, 4(+256) Storm Crows. After that, I follow with 4(+256) Body Doubles, 4(+256) Clones, 4 Followed Footsteps (Storm Crow, OF COURSE), use heat shimmer 4 times (Which results in 64 more storm crows), 4(+256) Quicksilver Gargantuans, then I use rite of replication, kicked, 4 times for 320 more storm crows, 4(+256) Vesuvan Dopplegangers, 4(+256) Vesuvan Shapeshifters, and then one Rhys the Redeemed. Hold on, not done yet, I throw out Concordant Crossroads, as well as casting 2 Spitting Images for 32 more storm crows, putting the number of storm crow tokens at 2208. And now we tap Rhys the Redeemed with his second ability to double the tokens to 4416. If you've been keeping track of how many cards we used, it's at 59 right now. We COULD just ignore that last card and be happy with our 4444 storm crows, WE COULD, they all have haste. It's turn 2. But we really need that last card to put it at 60....
So, we throw in an Umbral Mantle on our Rhys the Redeemed and now have infinite storm crow tokens. Thankfully, it's your first turn so the enemy can't block with a single storm crow, so you should be fine. But you know, Storm Crow decides to throw out Scion of the Wild, after all, Storm Crow does not care for card limits. Storm Crow then uses Overwhelming Stampede. Think you can do something? Wrong, you got silenced with silence at the beginning of the turn. Of course, giving Storm Crow more stats is unneccesary and useless.
Given that Storm Crow's Power = Storm Crow's Toughness, SCP = SCT * SCT SCP(SCT) = SCT^2 * -1 + SCP^2 SCP^2 - SCP(SCT) = SCP^2 - SCT^2 Mathmagicfactoring SCP(SCP - SCT) = (SCP + SCT)(SCP - SCT) Divide by Storm Crow's Power - Storm Crow's Toughness Storm Crow's Power = Storm Crow's Power + Storm Crow's Toughness Storm Crow's Power = Storm Crow's Power + Storm Crow's Power (1) = (2) Storm Crow's Stats 1/2 COINCIDENCE?! I THINK NOT!
hatriarch
★★☆☆☆ (2.6/5.0)(5 votes)
Get 4 of these out on the field and you can win in 5 turns so good.
WateryMind
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(4 votes)
Storm Crow can't smell fear. He IS fear.
bfugitive
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(6 votes)
Storm Crow fought Chuck Norris.
Wait, who's Chuck Norris?
metalevolence
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(8 votes)
Strictly better than Storm Crow
Combolulz
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(23 votes)
If you look closely in overwhelming stampede , you see a stormcrow leading it.
Storm crow CREATED blue beatdown.
A set was supposed to be named after storm crow , but instead they named it "planar chaos" due to storm crow's last visit.
Storm crow is actually a changeling , it was so sneaky , it shapeshifted it's way and was published in bird form.
Storm crow can force your opponent to take mana burn before the game starts.
Storm crow didn't like a set , so he UNHINGED it.
Storm crow CAN understand Null Rod's flavor text.
Storm crow EATS Emrakul's tentacles for dinner.
Storm crow makes darksteel rust.
Stormcrow made mirrodin...besieged.
Stormcrow was once reanimated...alive.
When stormcrow shuffles his library , he rearranges all his cards perfectly for a next turn win IN FRONT of his opponent...and he wasn't caught.
Stormcrow once made a deck out of walls with trample...and won.
Stormcrow sculpts Jace's mind.
Stormcrow gives all his ladies a bouquet full of black-lotuses.
DeviousPie
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(15 votes)
Storm Crow got Osama Bin Laden.
DiasFlac420
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(3 votes)
Storm Crow > SSj4 Gogeta
ugotpauld
★★★☆☆ (4.0/5.0)(13 votes)
its freakin storm crow
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another brilliant creature for the insanely broken bird tribal. when this was in standard, it warped the whole metagame, people were maindecking creatures that specifically had higher power than storm crow, even if it cost them much more. and a lot of decks even had creature removal to deal with this.
people think that new phyrexia will change legacy, but gut shot doesn't even kill storm crow, so i doubt that.
and to the person talking about someone using fling on storm crow obviously didn't realise that fling deals the damage, not storm crow so that combo doesn't work.
Quite possibly one of the greatest cards ever printed. The tempo given by this card is amazing. Flying makes it usable late, early, and mid-game. 2 toughness survives most other 1 and 2 drops. Unmatched aggro. All my decks splash blue for this card. 11/Pr
Drewid
★★☆☆☆ (2.4/5.0)(7 votes)
creatire - chuck norris elemental.
Splizer
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(6 votes)
If Storm Crow had Annihilator (which it does, by the way), it would have Annihilator Everything You Ever Owned Including Your Friends And Family. Any other value would just stain the legend.
Superfrasse
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(2 votes)
I wish for a friend to this lonely bird, I'd adore a card called Crow Storm, which would make you able to have any number of cards named storm crow in your deck, and also makes you able to cast them as instants! God, I would love a card like that! 5/5 because it's a steady blocker with an ability to reach. Think about it in this way; It couldn't cost one blue, right? Too OP. It couldn't be a 2/2, hmh? Besauce that would also make it too good. You could change it so that it was a 2/2 flying for 2 blue mana, but that would leave no Storm Crow left! Also the art work is great on this one. And the flavor text. Good day.
Hugomanen
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
When Storm Crow basks its wings to fly, the plane moves down to the crow doesnt have to move. When two Storm Crows wish to move away from each other, reality inserts space between them to allow for such distancing.
Talk about power curve this card is strictly better than storm crow.
BlackAlbino
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
I desperately wish this were a legal general for EDH
And why do people add links to the card their commenting on?
BlackFlameAshura
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Starred in Birdemic: Shock In Terror. It swings at you and explodes on impact.
ZeroSheep
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(9 votes)
This card is so broken it's banned in casual.
correct
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(4 votes)
How on earth could they ever manage to print as broken card as this???
Drewsel
★☆☆☆☆ (1.6/5.0)(4 votes)
You know... I actually have a Bird Soldier deck I could fit this into... B i t c h e s don't know 'bout my Soulcatchers' Aerie.
Dennoire
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(5 votes)
Dies to doomblade.
Champion64
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(7 votes)
Storm Crow doesn't get summoned by planeswalkers, he summons them!
Kruggles
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
I was playing my Kangee EDH deck a few days ago, and tapped my foil crystal ball to scry 2. Found a foil Storm crow and a Whispersilk cloak. Needless to say, neither went to the bottom, and I later swung with said amazing creature after enchanting with Celestial Mantle and equipping the cloak. My opponents had to Door to Nothingness me in order to stop the madness.
jasinviso
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(4 votes)
Meta Meta Meta Storm Crow, Meta Meta Meta, "Value," Meta. META!
jfre81
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(10 votes)
I shall be buried with four Storm Crows in my hand to defend me from any and all evil forces lurking in the afterlife.
tachiKC
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(10 votes)
The card might as well say "win target game."
Ertai69
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(13 votes)
Storm Crow plays for ante.
jtwhat87
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
this is my favorite comment section
MrBarrelRoll
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(14 votes)
In Soviet Russia, you play Storm Crow.
lvl10cpu
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
@Drewsel
To bad Storm Crow never dies
Exclaimer999
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(3 votes)
What happened that caused this card to gain uber popularity?
Nagoragama
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(7 votes)
lol lol internet meme lol lol
DrLambda
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(13 votes)
There is a reason that they call Storm the most broken mechanic.
chinkeeyong
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(25 votes)
Storm Crow takes a Rocket Launcher blast to the face... and lives.
Wataa71
★★☆☆☆ (2.6/5.0)(5 votes)
Screw Caw-Blade, I'm making a Crow-blade deck! What? You said Storm Crow isn't in standard? Once winter comes, he's coming for you. P.S He decides when winter comes.
I love how this is rated higher than Courier Hawk.
Pigfish99
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(11 votes)
I'm sick of the damn storm crow meme.
Sure, its pretty fine body for blue, but the meme has been beaten like a dead phyrexian horse.
2/5.
AngusMcSillyWilly
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(4 votes)
My girlfiend cheated on me with Storm Crow - but who could blame her. I wish storm crow autographed her before flying off, probably to destroy some civilizations somewhere
DerDerDerp
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(6 votes)
My idea of a perfect deck
creatures
Storm Crow x OVER 9000!!!!
Lands
Forests x 42
who agrees?
Cybrax
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
I like the portal edition that lets you know it can fly in bold!
This card breaks the color pie! Have you seen Chandra Nalaar's +1 ability? Storm Crow has the same damage output, in blue. Absurd! And 2 toughness for 2 mana? What is this, Grizzly Bears? Green would be jealous! Not to mention, this card combos with Soulcatchers' Aerie (just be sure to bring along some less-godlike Birds as sacrifices), Holy Strength, Unholy Strength, nearly every Equipment card, Overrun, Diabolic Tutor (to search for more crows, of course!), and even Progenitus (the hydra makes a great blocker while your Storm Crow swings for the win). I mean, really! This guy was on the not-legal-in-Standard list before Jace, the Mind Sculptor was even printed! Vintage and Legacy ought to take the hint.
If you put a copy of this card under an X-ray, you can clearly see that Storm Crow was originally planned to be the first planeswalker.
Crow, the Storm Bender
Falgorn
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(3 votes)
I could. But it's pointless to make any comparison that involves Storm Crow. Except if it's with Storm Crow.
jarrettbeast97
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(6 votes)
I must admit storm crow is by far the greatest mtg card ever. If he was reprinted into standard the death rate would rise 75%. He is so powerful he ignores all mtg rules. His rule is I win deal with it.
Racnornam
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
my caw blade deck had 4 of these and no mind sculptors, won every tournament.
and then I thought " forget the other bird and ran eight storm crows and double won every tournemant
and soon my deck of 30 Storm Crows and 30 Islands was compleated
Ladnarud
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Dies to Doom Blade.
DarthParallax
★☆☆☆☆ (1.9/5.0)(5 votes)
Dies to Final Judgement.
I saw a guy say he'd trade Black Lotus for one and really wanted to shut him up. That's going too far.
However, I will say that Gandalf as Planeswalker would HAVE to be named "Gandalf, Storm Crow"
An extra deck with the same sleeves as your previous deck.
The strategy: Keep all the cheatyfaces in your pockets, and play legacy.
After the 5th storm crow comes out, your opponent will be both in cardiac arrest and disbelief at the feats you'd achieved, but then, realized he could win the losers way by saying i cheated. At that moment when he gets up, take the 5th storm crow away, replace the deck with your extra deck, and place all 40 cheatyfaces on the table. When he/she returns to show the judge your actions, you can just say "Sorry? Me? Cheat? never..."
And then you'd get kicked out of the tournament, and maybe banned (depending on the ***-ness of the store-owner) but you will emerge a hero to the peasants.
They shall know you as "That guy with the Storm Crows and Cheatyfaces"
Arachibutyrophobia
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(9 votes)
the new power nine -
9. Boggart Forager - has the most feared activated ability in the history of mtg
There comes a time in deckbuilding when the blue mage has to choose a path. Counters and bounce spells are easy to pick. A soft lock isn't hard either. The true question is the win condition. Do you pick a big stompy Emrakul that simply ends the game quickly in two or three attacks? Or do you peck them to death, one turn at a time, whilst relishing the scent of your opponent's agony and despair? Truly, Storm Crow is one of the darkest creatures in Magic: The Gathering. Joke about Storm Crow all you want, but I'd rather be up against so many other things.
yangw
★☆☆☆☆ (1.4/5.0)(5 votes)
Sorry Ajani Goldmane... but I'm afraid I have to replace you with Storm Crow :(
hatchc2
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(3 votes)
when does crow storm get released
UberMasterBeef.
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(3 votes)
storm crow stole my girlfriend. true story.
001010011100101110
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(12 votes)
I heard that they're making Murder of Crows in Innstrad. Will be drafting with those.
I can't believe they reprinted it in 9th. It wasn't that long ago.
Higginjoe
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(7 votes)
This card officially makes Ral Zarek's DotP 2012 deck the most broken deck in the game. Have the developer's ever heard of something called "game balance"?
FoxPrime
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(19 votes)
Guys at Wizards of the Coast told me they tried to ban Storm Crow, but Storm Crow simply refused. This card is just too good. It's the only card that has survived the changing metagame ever since it was released. It stomps on aggro decks, slaughters waves of squadron hawks, and can kill planeswalkers with its flying evasion. Buy these before they run out.
Pro Tip: Combos with Islands.
Concerned_Bystander
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(18 votes)
Some people probably have a Storm Crow in their wallet instead of pictures of their wife and child.
I have a more traditional sense of values and priorities, I have a picture of my wife and my daughter in my wallet.
But... I also have a Storm Crow in there as well.
justinianwtf
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(10 votes)
I carry a Storm Crow in my left-breast shirt pocket, on the off chance I get shot at. I'm confident it will block one or more bullets.
Havrekjex
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(7 votes)
This is only rated 4,2!? There must be a lot of haters out there. Squadron Hawk currently has a higher rating than this, and it's only a mere 1/1. Sure, it lets you search for more Squadron Hawks, but why would you want four creatures that suck instead of this crazy beast?
I currently run a deck with a playset of these straight up gangstas, 36 Islands and playsets of Foursee, Ponder, Preordain, Serum Visions and Long-Term Plans to increase my chances of drawing Storm Crow. In my first build, when I was new to this game, I also ran a playset of Clone and splashed black to play Disentomb, but I soon discovered that Storm Crow doesn't die, and I never need more than one on the table.
All my friends refuse to play against this deck. At first, it made me a bit upset, but then I realized that I would too, it's just way too broken for the kitchen table. Storm Crow is strictly for competitive play.
Gaffy00
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(3 votes)
Strictly worse than...oh...wait..
axiobeta
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(11 votes)
Recently I've been seriously considering buying all the storm crows I can find on the internet. It shouldn't cost me more than $100, and I'd have something of a monopoly on one of the greatest cards in the history of teh game. ...nobody steal my idea, I'll know if you do o_o
whiteforthewin
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Two of the Greatest cards in Magic..... Storm Crow and Rainbow Crow....Power Nine? Power eleven!
SgtSwaggr
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(4 votes)
If yall look into the top right corner of Gideon Jura's card, you'll see this guy circling above about to swoop in for the kill.
There's a reason in parts of The Lord of the Rings, Gandalf is referred to as Stormcrow.
Don't believe me? Check this.
http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Gandalf
Chaka-K-Rock
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(13 votes)
An Ode to the Mighty Storm Crow He’s a lover, not a fighter, but he’s also a fighter, so don’t get any ideas.
When it is raining, it is because he is sad.
He is left-handed. And right-handed.
He was once found guilty, of being innocent.
His bear hugs are actually hugs he gives to bears.
He bowls overhand.
He has won the same Lifetime Achievement Award...twice.
Bulls refuse to fight him.
He once buried a time capsule full of things that haven't happened yet.
If he disagrees with you, it is because you are wrong.
Most songs about love are written for him, about him, or by him.
His business card just says, "I'll call you."
He is the only man to ever ace a Rorschach test.
Every time he goes for a swim, dolphins appear.
Alien abductors have asked him to probe them.
If he were to give you directions, you'd never get lost, and you'd arrive at least five minutes early.
His legend precedes him, the way lightning precedes thunder.
If he were to say, "it's not you, it's me" he would be lying.
His charm is so contagous vaccines have been created out of it.
Even his enemies list him as their emergency contact number.
If a monument were built in his honor, Mt. Rushmore would close… due to poor attendance.
His reputation is expanding faster than the universe.
He has won trophies for his game face alone.
He can believe it's not butter.
Attention pays him.
He divides successfully by zero.
If he were to pat you on the back, you would put it on your resume.
Storm Crowdoes not hunt because the word hunting infers the probability of failure. Storm Crow goes
killing.
The chief export of Storm Crow is pain.
The Great Wall of China was originally created to keep Storm Crow out. It failed misserably.
Storm Crow kicked Neo out of Zion , now Neo is "The Two".
Storm Crow knows where Waldo lives.
Storm Crow can touch MC Hammer.
Storm Crow ordered a Big Mac at Burger King and got one.
There is no such thing as tornados. Storm Crow just hates trailer parks.
Storm Crow doesn't worry about changing his clock twice a year for daylight savings time. The sun rises and sets when Storm Crow tells it to.
If paper beats rock, rock beats scissors, and scissors beats paper, what beats all 3 at the same time? Answer: Storm Crow.
Storm Crow drinks napalm to quell his heartburn.
If you want a list of Storm Crow's enemies, just check the extinct species list.
If Superman and The Flash were to race to the edge of space you know who would win? Storm Crow.
Storm Crow owns the greatest poker face of all-time. It helped him win the 1983 world series of poker despite him holding just a joker, a 2 of clubs, a 7 of spades, and a green number 4 from Uno and a monopoly ‘get out of jail free’ card.
Storm Crow invented water.
Storm Crow is Luke Skywalker’s real father.
Storm Crow got a perfect score on his SAT's, simply by writing Storm Crow for every answer.
Aliens do exist. They're just waiting for Storm Crow to die before they attack. Too bad Storm Crow is immortal.
ExarVes
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(20 votes)
I carry one of these guys in my wallet, in front of my license. When I'm in a hurry, I frantically take out my wallet and brandish my ID. No one asks questions; they immediately stand aside. Some drop to their knees, others burst into tears. Or flames. Often, I will hold Storm Crow out of the driver's side window and cause all traffic lights to turn green and other vehicles to pull over.
mogonk
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(46 votes)
Some people probably have a Storm Crow in their wallet instead of pictures of their wife and child.
I have a more traditional sense of values and priorities, I have a picture of my wife and my daughter in my wallet.
But... my wife and my daughter are storm crows.
MacBizzle
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(5 votes)
The thing that gets to me is that in Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012, in Ral Zarek's U/R Hastey Bouncey InstantSorcery deck, Cloudburst, I run all four of these. They're nice and cheap, and if I have to bounce them to my hand, It's not much of a deal to play them again.
All jokes aside, not as good as bouncing a Spark Elemental along with something big of your opponent's, zapping your opponent for three with a Lightning Bolt meanwhile Gelectrode-ing three times on an unsuspecting bukkake victim. But a legit card nonetheless when you're presented with a limited choice and some really bad vanilla. This is... playable vanilla. Like Kraken Hatchling.
Officialy rated higher than JTMS and with good reason
sonorhC
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(6 votes)
Y'know, this isn't actually bad. It's just boring. 2 mana for a 1/2 flier is pretty well on the cost curve-- It's just that there are so many things that go over the top of the cost curve that nobody wants the things that are merely on it any more. Something like Chimney Imp I can understand the jokes for, since that's way overcosted for the effect you get, and it's too complicated as well. But how did a boring but fair card get to be the butt of so many jokes?
OK, I originally asked what was with all the storm crow jokes, but since no one wants to tell me, I'll try to figure it out:
Theory 1: It's so BAD like Wood Elemental or Chimney Imp that it deserves sarcastic levels of mockery. Analysis: While typical mockery sometimes does mention Chimney Imp in the same vein as this, it's clearly NOT as bad as that. In limited, it isn't a bad two-drop.
Theory 2: There's something inherently comedic about the creature type, art, or flavor text. Analysis: Doesn't seem to hold up. There are plenty of cards that use rhyme/poetry in their flavor text. Bird is a pretty common creature type in {u} and {w} especially. The 9th edition art actually looks kind of nice -- like something someone might paint while spending a day at the lake.
Theory 3: Someone started mocking it for whatever reason way back when and everyone since then just decided to go along with it and never wondered why. No one remembers the original reason anymore. Analysis: This seems to explain why no one can tell me what got the storm crow jokes going. I'm going with this theory.
AvatarofBro
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(5 votes)
The morons at my local comic store are putting these in their 5-cent magic boxes by mistake. I stocked up.
Herpaderpicus
★☆☆☆☆ (1.6/5.0)(4 votes)
Storm Crow, kill Progenitus in one hit
StephenKukuchek
★☆☆☆☆ (1.4/5.0)(5 votes)
Strictly worse than Storm Crow.
Storm Crow is strictly better than your mom OH ZING!
It has Zinged, Zanged and Zung all those that came before it.
RnD once thought about printing a card strictly better than Storm Crow, that's right, they THOUGHT about it.
I opened one in a booster pack once. There were no survivors.
cmallon07
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(10 votes)
This card is insane. The other day my opponent dropped a 1/1 first strike, forest walk, plainswalk, swamp walk, mountain walk, rampage 2, trample, vigilance, flying creature....it still couldn't handle my mighty Storm Crow.
If you think about it, Storm Crow comes with reach too, so it's almost like having two abilities. Incredible card.....
That new guy Ral in Duels Of The Planeswalkers...he uses some Storm Crow's. You know he's legit.
gman92
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(11 votes)
I heard they're reprinting this as a planeswalker.
Storm Crow, the Win Sculptor
Planeswalker - Storm Crow
+1 : Exile target planeswalker. Storm Crow, the Win Sculptor becomes a 1/2 creature with Flying, Hexproof, indestructible, and "this creature's toughness can't be 0." It's still a Planeswalker.
0 : Draw three cards. You can activate this ability any time you could cast an instant.
-1 : Target opponent sacrifices all permanents they control, then discards their hand. This ability has split second.
-10 : You win the game. Your opponent cannot respond at all to this ability except to gape in pure awe.
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Scribe13795096955536
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(4 votes)
“My boyfriend hates this card. Everyone in Maryland hates this card.”
Sutebe
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(26 votes)
Quoting another fellow on here by the name of Salient who explained the origins of the Storm Crow joke:
"Storm Crow jokes first emerged with Alliances, because you could pitch Storm Crow to Force of Will. The joke began as a reaction to the over-the-top blue hype of the day -- between Force and Diminishing Returns, many people said that Alliances had given Blue all the best cards. There was some serious-sounding hyperventilative discussion of whether it would ever be sane to play any other color. "Alliances broke blue" is the sort of thing people would say, as well as "Force of Will makes any random blue card better than every other card in the game." Stuff like that.
In response to that, people would jokingly assert that Storm Crow must be the most broken card ever, because it was blue and printed in Alliances. This made all the more sense because of the flavor text (you can read "the worst" as "the worst card ever" literally or as "the most devastating card ever" playfully).
Most players who make Storm Crow jokes nowadays aren't aware of the history of this tradition, but hey, it's great fun to see people get so much amusement out of such a mediocre card. And I like the jokes about the new reprint flavor text better anyhow. Storm Crow returning, we'd best get to burning! :)"
dragonhat
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Curses! I got a huge box of old Magic cards for free, and not a single Storm Crow was in it! Not to mention the fact that the box also contained exactly zero basic land cards.
If this card is imprinted on a Mirror Golem, does the golem get protection from pure awesome?
feppel
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
I over heard R&D say Eater Of Days was an attempt to depict Storm Crow's shlong.
ServentOfEtherium
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(2 votes)
DOOM BLADE!
Empathique1
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Not sure why this isn't banned in modern.
fernaske
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Even the mothership recognizes Storm Crow's power with the recent ReConstructed article during the Hellvault week.
"Storm Crow
Storm Crow doesn't care that it's not legal in Standard. When your enters-the-battlefield ability is "you win the game," a deck full of ways to reuse it is just icing on the cake. And it's a two-drop!"
grim1020
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I don't get why they haven't banned this card yet, just look at it, I heard once a man won a tournament running 60 of these, I'd be scared if i ever had to stare him down.
By the by, combos great with Storm Crow, trust me, I'm a doctor 5/5.
oh wait......it dies to removal and/or it destroyed my "pro status" deck, better rate it a 1/5 instead.
The.Laughing.Man
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(10 votes)
Chuck Norris when asked about his opinion of Storm Crow.
The amount of times I've lost to this card is ridiculous, they should ban it in all applicable formats.
Zokorad
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Why does everyone love storm crow??
KokoshoForPresident
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
I've always felt like these forums are like sacred, you know? If you don't have anything worthy to say, you shouldn't comment here... (I hope this post qualifies as worthy.) I salute thee, Grand Storm Crow, and may thy days of destroying Magic: the Gathering be long and prosperous.
Gameguy602
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(12 votes)
I once renamed a _____storm crow, and changed its flavor text to match. All 5 opponents left the table.
To get me a drink from my ashnod's coupons, but when they got back they scooped.
Kirbster
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(12 votes)
One of these days, some kid new to Magic is going to come along and read all of the sarcastic comments for this guy and Chimney Imp... and they're going to take them seriously, giving them a very skewed perception of the game.
dlgn
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
@Zokorad It's a joke. It isn't that good, but because it's slightly useful (for Force of Will mainly) people started joking about it being overpowered, and since then it has become an icon.
XAtma
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(6 votes)
This card is legal in modern!
Foxdonut12001
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(4 votes)
Strictly better than three wolf moon shirt.
Gcrudaplaneswalker
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(5 votes)
Oh where the everybody's heard... About the bird...
this made it a 10/8 with forestwalk, flying,flying a second time, trample, and hexproof. this is the undeniable proof of the true power of the storm crow
HavelockVetinari
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(3 votes)
On charcoal wings it plummets from above: An omen ill, claims Arna Kennerüd. Yet in my heart, its sight brings only love. For Storm Crow, other two-drops I eschewed. Play Tarmogoyf? What if my graveyard's light? I had as lief throw down a Runeclaw Bear! Tiago's Mage is flashy, but too slight- That weakling dies to Gut Shot, Zap, or Flare. No Confidant too Dark shall grace my board, Since cards for life I'll not so dearly buy. Though Stoneforge Mystic bring along her Sword, I'll none of her, until she learns to fly! No better card did e'er see print in blue Than Storm Crow, that magnificent 1/2.
TheDementiaBat
★★☆☆☆ (2.7/5.0)(6 votes)
Strictly better than Chuck Norris.
atemu1234
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I remember I used this to finish off an opponent... come to think of it, why the hell was it in my deck?
chrismus
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
If i had the opportunity to create my own Magic card, it would probably be a remake of Storm Crow that also has 'A deck may contain any number of cards named Storm Crow'
Justin133Nivmizzet1
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
They banned Time Walk but let this see play. Why WIZARDS! Why do you have to give blue the best cards!!!!!!!!!!!! IT cAN ATTACK 4 1 DAMAGE IN THE AIR!!!!!! NOT EVEN BLIGHTSTEEL COLOSSUS DOES THAT! 0/5
I have a special place in my Rares folder for this card. I have a playset on the front page.. And on the back page.. And on all the other pages as well...
Demento_Recraves
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
To give perspective of the influence this card has, Game of Thrones was based on it's flavor text.
this card so good i made an account just to give it a 5/5. it can also block op chimney imp
Cthulhu_Shin
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
New rumor!!! Storm Crow becomes a planeswalker in Return to Ravnica!!
link3343
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
You guys hear? It's banned in EDH
Hermeezey
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(12 votes)
Storm Crow puts you on a 23 turn win-clock, which is faster than 26-turn Chimney Imp. Synergizes with blue tempo-counterspell cards to stop your opponent from even touching your already OP Crow. It can peck Jace the Mind Sculptor to death and dodge Stormtide Leviathan. It comes out 4 turns earlier than Frost Titan and even that doesn't have flying. Wizards had to invent Spell Snare just to slow this card down. It goes without saying that I took out all the aforementioned cards from my MUC deck because because this was a much better win condition. On top of all of that, you can discard Storm Crow for Force of Will which, by extension, knocks-out every combo-deck in legacy, modern, or extended (something you can't do with Tarmogoyf or even Chimney Imp). I would rather play against 4-copies of each of the Power Nine, than play against one copy of Storm Crow.
I use to play MUC Draw-Go. Now I play MUC Crow-Go.
I thought the +1 was: Exile target permanent. Storm Crow, the Win Sculptor becomes a 1/2 creature with Flying, and "if it were to be exiled, enchanted by an opponent, or put into to the graveyard you win the game". It's still a Planeswalker.
Bone_Saw_Joe
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Too bad it's not a legend because it would be the greatest EDH commander ever.
AllDoseHamboigahs
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(3 votes)
I lost my virginity to Storm Crow, even though I had lost it three years prior to Magic the Gathering even existing
JaceIsAwesome
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Guys, I have so be serious. It's strictly worse than.... ARGH, WHY IS THIS CARD NOT RATED 5 STARS FOR GODS SAKE?!?!?
anytwofactors
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(16 votes)
Kills removal.
Phage123
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
"Caw caw, motherf***ers" -Davesprite, Homestuck
prawntheman
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(20 votes)
I am a pro - better than all of these self proclaimed "pros" out here I can assure you, and I think Storm Crow simply sucks. I mean, if it was really such a good card then it could come right behind me and smash my head against the keyasdglaghiwgaljealjbivnvzc le LEGDALGJFLDAELCL JLShlgsh lJlfhlgh tl jzl
kor6sic6
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(4 votes)
I can't believe that no one has pointed out that it dies to Murder yet. Ridiculous.
Ali-Baba
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
My EDH general.
adrian.malacoda
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(3 votes)
The reason this card is so powerful is because it is actually Urza. No, really. Google "i am a storm crow, tawnos" He says this in The Brothers' War novel.
Malasthar
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(12 votes)
Do you know why Gandalf is called, "Gandalf Stormcrow"? Because he is a badasss, obvs
Stinga
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Why is this rated so highly when there are so many better cards. Off the top of my head there are two that are strictly better. Hovermyr with a 4ish rating and floodbringer at 2.5 I know it is a meme and all but I just don't get WHY.
EDIT: Strictly better than storm crow. I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT!
Subtle_Kay
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Does any card have more votes? Or downright badass-ness?
Red-White
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(11 votes)
"I can't believe that no one has pointed out that it dies to Murder yet. Ridiculous." - kor6sic6
I'm afraid I have to tell you, that Murder dies to Storm Crow....
azure_drake222222
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
30 pages! Does any card have more than 30 pages of comments?
24 Other Spells 4 Rite of Replication 4 Cackling Counterpart 4 Followed Footsteps 4 Stolen Identity 2 Coat of Arms 2 Gravitational Shift 4 Favorable Winds
20 Lands 12 Island 4 Halimar Depths 4 Cavern of Souls
Less Dead cards, Door of Destinies doesn't work (You only cast 4 Birds) And you have Cryptoplasm (Which is a great clone target) The moment you get a Stormcrow, ALL YOUR CRYPTOPLASMS WILL BE SUPERIOUR
A cloaked stranger stalked the dodgy rat infested corridor's of the Ravnican undercity. After several minutes he came across a brass door, He looked for a signal or anything to Identify it as the door he sought, and there it was. Carved into the base of the door adjacent to the hinge was a single feather, no larger than a thumb, and coated in blue-black ink.
He knocked, and after a moments hesitation a gaunt Vedalken flung open the small window flap and demanded a password. Impatient, the cloaked man responded "Storm Crow descending, winter unending." The Vedalken broke out in a crooked grin and responded "Storm crow departing summer is starting! Come in comrade." The door swung open to reveal yet another crooked passageway, and the motley crew pressed onward. "We recently fell under attack by the Golgari Scavengers, it seem's they are looking for more corpses than ever with Niv Mizzet's endgame nearing us, and they just stumble in" The old wizard laughed. "I trust they weren't successful", the stranger retorted bitterly. "See for yourself, here we are!" The Vedalken nodded forward, then withdrew from the stranger's presence.
True to his word, the passage widened, The stranger beamed at the awe inspiring sight laid out before him; a vast aerie turned ossuary as hundreds of thousands of Storm Crows descended on a mound of Golgari re-deceased. Jace Beleren Drew back his hood, longingly observing the flash of blood on blue-black feathers, as he dropped to his knees and wept at the glory that is Storm Crow.
The perfect balance of control and aggro to keep any opponent down. GG
Toxicity17
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Nicol Bolas, Planeswalkers second ability doesn't take control of the crow. THE CROW TAKES CONTROL OF NICOL BOLAS!!!!! ALL HAIL THE GREAT CROW!!!!
blurrymadness
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(10 votes)
Has secret rules text that says: "At end of game, shuffle him into your library."
This also goes for decks that didn't include storm crow.
Exofori
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(1 vote)
BEST FLAVOR TEXT EVER First time I layed my eyes upon this beauty I couldn't help myself but crow a Storm Crow.
Pun: A+
myownworst
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(3 votes)
How is this card so great? Fog of Gnats negates its impact. Doom Blade and/or Go for the Throat nixes it. Damnation and Wrath of God wipe it out. If you also play (which I do - & actually), there are numerous ways to prevent it from even reaching the battlefield a la my personal favorite: Undermine.
2 Stars and it can fly into a shed and lock itself inside.
anonymous1burger
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(6 votes)
So, the other day I decided I wanted to stop being the guy that always loses at magic, so I went out and got some storm crows, rite of replications, and followed footsteps. I now use a mono-green control deck that splashes blue for these cards and white for niveous wisps. I had my opponent at 6 life with 5 storm crows out when I played Akroma's Memorial and a kicked Rite of Replication. I attacked and won, but I accidentally left a storm crow out on the table. That night, while I was brushing my teeth, I heard some loud crashes and ran out of the bathroom to see what was going on. I saw a vague shape and a few dark feathers disappear into the shadows. All of my footy pajamas were missing, and when I woke up at midnight, I heard cawing and saw them on the ceiling, shredded, spelling "winter unending." I ran out and haven't been back since.
For some hymns in reverence to the great Storm Crow (the guy obviously named himself after the card) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9a8HTVzhro
Metalogical
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Some boys think playing Hurloon Wrangler is a good way to get with a lady Magic Player, but those boys are just that: boys.
Real men know that, if you're looking for a card that'll help you score, it's gotta be the Storm Crow.
XG_Darkside
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(6 votes)
I once saw Chuck Norris take an arrow to the knee........Storm Crow was holding the bow.
The second your opponent realizes what you're doing, GG.
Lifegainwithbite
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(6 votes)
My only regret is I can only have 4 of this in every deck... Along with 4 Dovescapes, just to do dear Storm Crow proud *wipes tears*
Things you can do with Storm Crow: -Win on turn 23 by itself. I know right. Crazy stuff. Imagine that with extra turn effects.. broken as hell. -Pitch it to Force of Will. I mean how many cards can you do that with? -Fly over Phyrexian Obliterator, Progenitus and Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre. So you can't even stop that 23 turn clock. That's power creep for you. -Kill 1/1 soldier tokens all day. Yes I'll kill that one.. and this one and that one. -Make it indestructible with Darksteel Plate. That's why it's banned in Commander. -Give it infect with Phyresis and win in TEN turns. Oh my god. -Give it protection from black with the swords and it's immune to Doom Blade! or red and it's immune to Bolt!
Blubicles
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(3 votes)
anyone here who is actually a professional will know that Storm Crow is the most BROKEN card that has ever been printed. Stupid noobs and ***y pros wont believe me, but this card is AMAZING. Its like noobs trying to understand shocklands. Most noobs will think "i have to lose two life???" thumbs up if you agree.
Cheese_Particle
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(15 votes)
Reprint! Reprint! REPRINT!
Jibz
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(2 votes)
If anyone played Abe's Oddysee, it was foretold there:
"With power acquired blue crows will sing Cast to release the havoc they bring"
We were warned by the Monsaic. We did not listen. Now it is too late. All hail the great Storm Crow.
tankthebest
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(4 votes)
"Sir! We discovered this body in the aftermath of the hurricane, but look at the wounds! Those look like they were caused by a bird's beak! And there's feathers everywhere!"
"It looks like this guy ran into some-"
*puts on sunglasses*
"stormy weather."
YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!
Secksee
★★★☆☆ (3.7/5.0)(3 votes)
Sooo.... Why is there no Storm Crow Avatar yet?
at0micpickle
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(7 votes)
i just will never get why this card is rated so high, a 1/2 for 2? no thank you
Congo_Jack
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(8 votes)
This card can actually be pretty good, you just have to go through a few steps:
@edgarpoeallen YOU MOTHER FUCKER STORM CROW IS THE BEST CARD EVER MADE!!!! HELL YEAH HES A 2 CMC NOT A PUNK *** 5 LIKE THAT *** CHIMNEY IMP!!! IF YOU EVER DISRESPECT STORM CROW AGAIN I WILL GUT YOU LIKE A FISH!!!!!!! STORM CROW THUG LIFE 2PAC IS ALIVE!!!!!
RetroGamer3
★☆☆☆☆ (1.2/5.0)(6 votes)
Ohh I get it now. It's rated so high because of Lord of the Rings geeks.
SnickaPlease
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
This card is insaaaaaaane
SAUS3
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(9 votes)
@RetroGamer3 What? That's not it at all.
This card is rated so high because it is the strongest card ever printed. It has so many versatile uses.
@at0micpickle It's a 1/2 flying for 2. You will never understand the power of storm crow.
Better power/toughness than tarmogoyf when the graveyards are empty, and it has flying. That's ridiculous. It even trades with dark confidant. Better stats than arcbound ravager as well.
Those are some of the best 2-drops in the entire game. They can't even touch this. They don't even have flying.
EDIT Another note: This card is legal in modern, but wasn't reprinted in modern masters, but the above cards I mentioned were. It's because this card is too powerful to be printed again.
Enelysios
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Bored at work and want to have some fun on gatherer? Play "Six Degrees of Storm Crow". Just hit the random card button over the search bar and follow links from the comments until you get here!
EdgarPoeAllen
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(4 votes)
Its just a blue basilica screecher. Stop with the hype already!!! @ Gambling Addict you know what cards are better too, Hovermyr and Metropolis sprite
Sweater
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(13 votes)
It's so good it doesn't even die to the mythical Storm Crow.
MDG117
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(14 votes)
i was playing with my friend and i was about to win, next thing i know he plays storm crow, i conceded and slamed my cards on the table, we haven't talked since.
This better come back in FTV:20. Wizards I hope you're listening.
Jitteryowl
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
WTF WOTC totally game breaking card why is this legal in any formats. Whoever designed this card should be fired.
Salient
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(5 votes)
People keep complaining about and mocking this card. It's getting exhausting to remind them that you get a copy of Crow for each spell that has been played that turn.
Sure, a 1/2 flier for is mediocre, but with a few cantrips, Crow can easily outclass Squadron Hawk. Five or more 1/2 fliers for one card? Now you're talking.
Storm is a broken mechanic, and Crow is the best Storm card.
;)
Jojabi
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Did you guys know they're reprinting this guy as a mythic in Modern Masters 2? I'll bet he's gonna have some sick art!
Yeah I know, it'll totally make up for the Kamigawa Dragons in the original Modern Masters.....
Bob111634
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(6 votes)
turn 1 ponder looks at 3 storm crows off the top reveals them to opponent. he scoops his one land off the table
Wulfsten
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card is why I always run 4 Lobotomy and 4 Meddling Mages in every deck I play.
Main reason, why I made this account, is to like all the printings of Storm Crow. 5/5
MightyWhitey
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(7 votes)
Sorry. I know it's obviously just me but I do not understand the infatuation of storm crow humor. It's a lame card for noobs to put a piece of equipment on and flap in and feel good about it. There are hundreds of similar cards... Sorry to take a dump in the middle of your parade route, but you guys should just stick to masterbation and casting foil mythics your mom bought you....
bentz
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
wow! I just realised that he is common. you should use 4 in any deck, even if it doesn't have blue in it.
RumblingAfterShocks
★★☆☆☆ (2.7/5.0)(5 votes)
I find the storm crow jokes are getting rather stale 3/5
Theneonwind
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
I like the card because it's pretty.
Svartben
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(6 votes)
They should reprint this as a mythic rare.
ArcaneHipocrisy
★★☆☆☆ (2.2/5.0)(3 votes)
Storm Crow is absolutely amazing!!! I played him once against my opponent when he was loosing.. He was like, "Are you serious?"
ShatterPalm
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(9 votes)
"I am a storm crow, Tawnos. A bird of ill omen. Disaster follows in my wake, and I don't want to hurt her anymore. I don't want to hurt anyone anymore. Only a " - Urza to Tawnos, The Brothers' War by Jeff Grubb.
NOW I know why this card is so powerful: It's Urza! The storm crow is Urza!
Dakmoth
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
I had just put a Storm Crow into play in my Bird EDH and an opponent scooped right off the bat. I asked him why and he said he was to afraid to Doom Blade.
Twinkiemation
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(4 votes)
Better than ICBMs.
JungleRot
★★☆☆☆ (2.3/5.0)(3 votes)
Needs to be banned in every format. INCLUDING Vintage!
adolphus
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
35 pages and counting, good olde Storm Crow
NinStarRune
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(4 votes)
Apparently there is a tavern named after this mythic beast.
http://www.stormcrowtavern.com/
Potato_no_Hana
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(4 votes)
first
delta474
★★★★☆ (4.9/5.0)(6 votes)
This card stole my virginity.
orzhov20
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
if I played the game back in the times of 9th edition, and opened this in a draft, I would only choose it if if I was already drafting blue and it was the only blue card in my pile, and THEN i still might not pick it.
Swag_Crow
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(9 votes)
Swag_Crow declaring, swag overbearing. Swag_Crow autocarding, swag just starting.
-Swag_Crow
ChampionofSquee
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(6 votes)
@ShatterPalm Storm Crow isn't strong because it's Urza, Urza is strong because he's a Storm Crow.
I love the fact that this guy has a higher rating than Jace, the Mind Sculptor.
TheDoomknight
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(5 votes)
This things powerful even by today's standards. Sigh, if only it had flying (Rereads Card)... DEAR GOD.
FustyDavorite
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I'm really excited for Wizards to announce From the Vault: Storm Crow
Quinn_Darkblade
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
First of all @mogonk, I laughed so hard I almost peed allitle, and @Lifegainwithbite, your comment made me think "I only regret that I have but four Storm Crows to give to my deck."
BaconOfUnrest
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Fightohydra is right, strictly better than Jace the mindsculptor
People don't understand why this card's so good. My opponent kept attacking me with his Darksteel colossus, and I was able to block him the whole game with only Storm Crow & Maze of Ith.
OnyxSturm
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
@Gatorsnatcher:
This card is the epitome of good. A lot of examples have been already shown - combos great with Islands, can fly over any non-flyer, you don't have to sac it to make it good like Black Lotus, etc.
Not to mention it can be equipped with Razor Boomerang. The 'Storm' mechanic is what really makes this card, though. If Wizards had made it a 0/1, it may have some balance to it, but as of now it's overpowered as hell. I'd normally wish a card such as this hadn't been made but he's been the source of most of my victories, even with nonblue decks.
I predict this card will raise 40-50 dollars in value in the next few months. Stock up now.
zeniongames
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(2 votes)
From the Vault: Birds.
Dizziy
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
why don't the rules text mention all his abilities like you may have any number of storm crows in a deck
Gatorsnatcher
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
@OnyxSturm:
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Alienblaster
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Hail the almighty and righteous storm crow the Shephard of the lost sheep. He only brings the path of true Holy might and blessings. Pray to him and he grants thee with the gift in to the holy land of egotist. The only heaven worth believing and wishing of entrance to. Hail the almighty storm crow bringer of life and death. - R.L. Stine , Storm Chaser , squad 564, boy scouts.
observant1
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
By far the best creature ever made, there simply is no replacement for such overwhelming raw power for such a cheap and easily splashable mana cost. People saying it shouldnt be worth as much as it is fail to understand that the demand combined with the supply determine price. In other words, Storm Crow is so expensive only because the market of serious vintage/legacy/modern players are willing to pay that much to have the best chance of winning with the best creature ever printed.
iADSuprenant
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card needs its own "Report Abuse" Button.
DJK3654
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
if, and most likely when, wizards returns to dominaria in an expansion, this card should be reprinted just for the lulz
I welcome your suggestions and criticisms. All glory to the great Storm Crow!
KiitchenFinks
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
BEST CARD EVER.
Opeth2010
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I'll give you 5 Alpha Black Lotus for a Storm Crow. How does that sound? I won't even bother asking congress first either!
whitedefender
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I seriously don't understand why this is good. Am I missing something? Wouldn't you rather play a 1/3 Seacoast Drake? Or a Stormfront Pegasus? Or even, *shudder* a SUNTAIL HAWK?
Zylo-
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Stormcrow sucks. Period.
No need to read any other comments, Simply move on and forget about this *** card.
Comments (376)
2.5
I was like "Whoa! A 1/2 Flier for two? And in Blue? This is rididculous!"
So I traded him my playset of Tarmogoyf.
"Its only a 0/1..." I said.
He looked at me funny.
Be ever vigilant, comrades!*
*Vigilance is one of the eight creature keywords approved by Grand Comrade Storm Crow.
Turn 2: Mana, Storm Crow
Turn 3: Attack for the win
Works every time.
-Storm Crow for President 2012
5/5
Wizards is on a road to self destruction if they keep printing cards like this.
Opened one at the pre-release, and everyone cried.
a FOIL storm crow.
What's better than a FOIL storm crow?
Your lifetime achievements. Ha, no, only joking. Foil storm crow is the god of all that is good and tasty.
Also, strictly worse than Tempest Owl
THIS CARD MADE ME QUIT MAGIC
My favourite card.
But i'm confused apparently it's strictl better than black lotus which is strictly better than a plains which is strictly better than a baneslayer which is also strictly better than a storm crow.
One of those must be wrong and i think it's
baneslayer being strictly better than a storm crow unpossible.
but in all seriousness chimney imp just plains outclasses this.
Jokes aside, I've seen a single horned turtle with flying win draft matches. That's what happens when you just don't have enough Storm Crow.
Could you watch it die?
Storm Crow is your shield, Storm Crow is your sword.
Storm Crow has defied Gods and Demons.
MTG Players, I can't tell you everything. It isn't safe. R&D...they know I'm in the system.
Inside the Storm Crow deck, there's a solution. A way to stop the Chimney Imps, without summoning the remaining Storm Crows.
You will become the Storm Crow-est we can make you.
You will be the protectors of MTG and all her subsequent expansions.
Don't make a Storm Crow a promise, if you know you can't keep it.
Unleash the Storm Crow!
One Storm Crow to bring them all, one Storm Crow to find them. One Storm Crow to rule them all, and in the darkness, bind them.
In place of Wizards of the Coast you shall have a Storm Crow, not dark but blue and only two converted mana cost. With great artwork and flying, and it's amazingly a 1/2! All share love Storm Crow and despair...
Your overconfidence in Storm Crow is your weakness.
Your belief that anything else could possibly best it is yours.
Learn to wield the power of the Storm Crow and you will unleash a power greater than any other. The power, to save MTG's life.
Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker's Abilities
+3 Destroy Target non Storm Crow permanent
-2 Gain control of target non-Storm Crow Creature
-9 Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker deals seven damage to target player. That player discards seven non-Storm Crow cards, then sacrifices seven non-Storm Corw permananets.
All the ideals you hold to be true and good in this world...do not exist...Storm Crow, does.
BTW, Storm Crow is allied with Welkin Tern...
He is also better than Hellkite Overlord and Demon of Death's Gate because he can block Baneslayer Angel. And with 2 Giant Growths he can even kill him. Every M:tG player should run 4 of them in any deck
Storm Crow departing, the game is now restarting.
I was an instant convert. The next day, I made a mono blue deck with 56 islands and a playset of these as the only win condition. I took it to a local tournament and showed it off to a couple of people there ("LOOK AT THIS AND WEEP!!!!"). Based on the nervous laughter and expressions of disbelief ("Is this some sort of sick joke?") that I got, I could tell that they were terrified of the sheer power of the storm crow.
Also, I know that there are a lot of haters out there who think, "This card sucks." I have a question for you. Actually, three: Does Vengevine have flying? Can you attack for one every turn with your Jace, the Mind Sculptor? Does Bloodbraid Elf cost two mana? It doesn't. It's fine by me if you all want to blow your money on forty-dollar Baneslayer Angels (which, by the way, die to doom blade just the same). I'm sticking with this bad boy here.
I will never play magic again. EVER
Okay, that made me *** myself laughing.
Props to you!
Why the heck would he say that??
*drives off to get one*
BTW I got a whole playset of 'em for this stupid Worldwake crap thing called Jake the Brain Melder or something. Guy's definitely still crying.
That sucks. I really hate superfast decks like that, nobody does. Sure the deck might have taken some time to make, it won't take much thought playing it, because it is like playing a ***. That person is basically playing solitare. That said magic can still be a lot of fun in casual.
Storm Crow is so badass. You remember him from such films as Alfred Hitch***'s The Birds.
Storm Crow Army:1
Other "better" cards: 0
It's EVERY gamer's reaction to assume it's a Storm Crow,
And when it's not,
The world sighs with relief.
"Strictly worse than Storm Crow".
What happens if you play a Storm Crow on your turn, and your opponent plays a Storm Crow on the next turn? Somehow, I imagine the result being very much like a division by zero. Or two black holes swallowing each other up. Or a triple rainbow that ends in a hail of fire.
Turn 2: Land, Survival of the Fittest, Confessor
Turn 3: Land, Dark Ritual, Sanguine Bond
/1 Mana, discard Storm Crow, fetch Storm Crow. Repeat.
If this isn't proof of Storm Crows awesome power I don't know what is!!
My game store started complaining because people are scared to use the tables, and the staff are afraid to clean them up.
Another protip: If you don't have islands, splash blue so you can run 4.
"1: target creature you control gets +1/-1 until eot, if that creature is put into a graveyard this turn draw two cards"
But they decided against it as it was already broken, and it was such a weak ability next to the one it already has this sucker can fly (not even superman can do that), they knew when this bad bird came out everyone was gonna be playing 4 copies of him no matter what deck they had.
Storm Crow - the Chuck Norris of Magic!
http://shirt.woot.com/friends.aspx?k=17702
If you equip storm crow with a jitte your opponent will spontaneously combust due to the fact you just broke magic.
Turn 2: Another land, and Storm Crow
Turn 3: ???
Turn 4: WINNING
when he played it, he whent super sayian 3 and the building blew up
when he killed me with it, i whent and got 4 of em and built a mono blue deck
if you want your local game shop to survive your next vintage turny, i advise you play with these banned of invest in titanium walls
CROW, YOU ROCK!
To think I saw a real Storm Crow, not one of those collector edition ones, or the gold boardered ones from the Tourny decks, but the real thing! if I ever get over my fear I'll ask him if he'll trade me one for my two beta moxes.....probably not though....only an idiot would make that deal....and we all know idiots don't use Storm Crows riiight?
Storm Crow beat me in a one-on-one match this evening. True story. Still figuring out how.
I mean... we were playing SCRABBLE. That card is just way too overpowered if all that's going to be happening.
That being said, in a BU deck w/ howl from beyond it might really pull it's weight.
land_comment dont Joke like that storm crow deserves respect.
I just beat someone in a casual game with this!
THE LEGEND LIVES!
My opponent then proceeded to die. Like, I'm not talking about life points, here. He actually physically died. He took one look at my Storm Crow and all of his skin melted off like that one scene from Indiana Jones. It was pretty awesome, except now my entire playset of Storm Crows is sitting in the county jail, awaiting a trial for first-degree murder. My lawyers are optimistic though that we can lower the penalty to manslaughter, since Storm Crow doesn't mean to be the ridiculously broken card it is, it was just born that way when Jace, the Mind Sculptur and Black Lotus had a power-baby in the center of the Blind Eternities. So technically, it's not its fault.
So yeah. This card wins games. Play it.
So, we throw in an Umbral Mantle on our Rhys the Redeemed and now have infinite storm crow tokens. Thankfully, it's your first turn so the enemy can't block with a single storm crow, so you should be fine. But you know, Storm Crow decides to throw out Scion of the Wild, after all, Storm Crow does not care for card limits. Storm Crow then uses Overwhelming Stampede. Think you can do something? Wrong, you got silenced with silence at the beginning of the turn. Of course, giving Storm Crow more stats is unneccesary and useless.
Given that Storm Crow's Power = Storm Crow's Toughness,
SCP = SCT
* SCT
SCP(SCT) = SCT^2
* -1 + SCP^2
SCP^2 - SCP(SCT) = SCP^2 - SCT^2
Mathmagicfactoring
SCP(SCP - SCT) = (SCP + SCT)(SCP - SCT)
Divide by Storm Crow's Power - Storm Crow's Toughness
Storm Crow's Power = Storm Crow's Power + Storm Crow's Toughness
Storm Crow's Power = Storm Crow's Power + Storm Crow's Power
(1) = (2)
Storm Crow's Stats 1/2
COINCIDENCE?! I THINK NOT!
so good.
Wait, who's Chuck Norris?
Storm crow CREATED blue beatdown.
A set was supposed to be named after storm crow , but instead they named it "planar chaos" due to storm crow's last visit.
Storm crow is actually a changeling , it was so sneaky , it shapeshifted it's way and was published in bird form.
Storm crow can force your opponent to take mana burn before the game starts.
Storm crow didn't like a set , so he UNHINGED it.
Storm crow CAN understand Null Rod's flavor text.
Storm crow EATS Emrakul's tentacles for dinner.
Storm crow makes darksteel rust.
Stormcrow made mirrodin...besieged.
Stormcrow was once reanimated...alive.
When stormcrow shuffles his library , he rearranges all his cards perfectly for a next turn win IN FRONT of his opponent...and he wasn't caught.
Stormcrow once made a deck out of walls with trample...and won.
Stormcrow sculpts Jace's mind.
Stormcrow gives all his ladies a bouquet full of black-lotuses.
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another brilliant creature for the insanely broken bird tribal. when this was in standard, it warped the whole metagame, people were maindecking creatures that specifically had higher power than storm crow, even if it cost them much more. and a lot of decks even had creature removal to deal with this.
people think that new phyrexia will change legacy, but gut shot doesn't even kill storm crow, so i doubt that.
and to the person talking about someone using fling on storm crow obviously didn't realise that fling deals the damage, not storm crow so that combo doesn't work.
hah, power creep indeed
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triumphs over legacy staples moat and mental misstep
11/Pr
5/5 because it's a steady blocker with an ability to reach. Think about it in this way; It couldn't cost one blue, right? Too OP. It couldn't be a 2/2, hmh? Besauce that would also make it too good. You could change it so that it was a 2/2 flying for 2 blue mana, but that would leave no Storm Crow left!
Also the art work is great on this one.
And the flavor text.
Good day.
He summons it every game.
And why do people add links to the card their commenting on?
To bad Storm Crow never dies
Creatures: (40)
40x Storm Crow
Lands: (20)
20x Island
DO YOU SEE IT?! DO YOU SEE THE INSANITY?!
Storm Crow
Sure, its pretty fine body for blue, but the meme has been beaten like a dead phyrexian horse.
2/5.
creatures
Storm Crow x OVER 9000!!!!
Lands
Forests x 42
who agrees?
Overpowered.
Crow, the Storm Bender
and then I thought " forget the other bird and ran eight storm crows and double won every tournemant
and soon my deck of 30 Storm Crows and 30 Islands was compleated
I saw a guy say he'd trade Black Lotus for one and really wanted to shut him up. That's going too far.
However, I will say that Gandalf as Planeswalker would HAVE to be named "Gandalf, Storm Crow"
Creatures:
40x Storm Crow (all foil)
40x Cheatyface
Lands:
20x Islands
An extra deck with the same sleeves as your previous deck.
The strategy: Keep all the cheatyfaces in your pockets, and play legacy.
After the 5th storm crow comes out, your opponent will be both in cardiac arrest and disbelief at the feats you'd achieved, but then, realized he could win the losers way by saying i cheated. At that moment when he gets up, take the 5th storm crow away, replace the deck with your extra deck, and place all 40 cheatyfaces on the table. When he/she returns to show the judge your actions, you can just say "Sorry? Me? Cheat? never..."
And then you'd get kicked out of the tournament, and maybe banned (depending on the ***-ness of the store-owner) but you will emerge a hero to the peasants.
They shall know you as "That guy with the Storm Crows and Cheatyfaces"
9. Boggart Forager - has the most feared activated ability in the history of mtg
8. Break Open - is the anticipation killing you? well, ta-da! you win the prize! krosan cloudscraper!
7. Rakalite - they reprinted it twice before they realized how powerful it was!
6. Apocalypse Chime - because everyone knows that Homelands is the most overpowered set and needs hosing
5. Bull Rush - total powercreep. and people used to think Brute Force was good!
4. Razor Boomerang - a measily 5 mana for an entire one damage! THANK YOU!
3. Chimney Imp - this card dominated standard during it's time. Affinity decks feared facing the unstoppable chimney imp decks!
2. Wood Elemental - a turn five 1/1! plus, you get to sac a pesky forest while you're at it! BAH-ROKEN!
1. Storm Crow - goes without saying
Do you pick a big stompy Emrakul that simply ends the game quickly in two or three attacks?
Or do you peck them to death, one turn at a time, whilst relishing the scent of your opponent's agony and despair?
Truly, Storm Crow is one of the darkest creatures in Magic: The Gathering. Joke about Storm Crow all you want, but I'd rather be up against so many other things.
Oh, I see, its being hate rated like Jace, the Mind Sculptor and Baneslayer Angel.
I can't believe they reprinted it in 9th. It wasn't that long ago.
Pro Tip: Combos with Islands.
I have a more traditional sense of values and priorities, I have a picture of my wife and my daughter in my wallet.
But... I also have a Storm Crow in there as well.
I currently run a deck with a playset of these straight up gangstas, 36 Islands and playsets of Foursee, Ponder, Preordain, Serum Visions and Long-Term Plans to increase my chances of drawing Storm Crow. In my first build, when I was new to this game, I also ran a playset of Clone and splashed black to play Disentomb, but I soon discovered that Storm Crow doesn't die, and I never need more than one on the table.
All my friends refuse to play against this deck. At first, it made me a bit upset, but then I realized that I would too, it's just way too broken for the kitchen table. Storm Crow is strictly for competitive play.
...nobody steal my idea, I'll know if you do
o_o
Don't believe me? Check this.
http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Gandalf
He’s a lover, not a fighter, but he’s also a fighter, so don’t get any ideas.
When it is raining, it is because he is sad.
He is left-handed. And right-handed.
He was once found guilty, of being innocent.
His bear hugs are actually hugs he gives to bears.
He bowls overhand.
He has won the same Lifetime Achievement Award...twice.
Bulls refuse to fight him.
He once buried a time capsule full of things that haven't happened yet.
If he disagrees with you, it is because you are wrong.
Most songs about love are written for him, about him, or by him.
His business card just says, "I'll call you."
He is the only man to ever ace a Rorschach test.
Every time he goes for a swim, dolphins appear.
Alien abductors have asked him to probe them.
If he were to give you directions, you'd never get lost, and you'd arrive at least five minutes early.
His legend precedes him, the way lightning precedes thunder.
If he were to say, "it's not you, it's me" he would be lying.
His charm is so contagous vaccines have been created out of it.
Even his enemies list him as their emergency contact number.
If a monument were built in his honor, Mt. Rushmore would close… due to poor attendance.
His reputation is expanding faster than the universe.
He has won trophies for his game face alone.
He can believe it's not butter.
Attention pays him.
He divides successfully by zero.
If he were to pat you on the back, you would put it on your resume.
Storm Crowdoes not hunt because the word hunting infers the probability of failure. Storm Crow goes
killing.
The chief export of Storm Crow is pain.
The Great Wall of China was originally created to keep Storm Crow out. It failed misserably.
Storm Crow kicked Neo out of Zion , now Neo is "The Two".
Storm Crow knows where Waldo lives.
Storm Crow can touch MC Hammer.
Storm Crow ordered a Big Mac at Burger King and got one.
There is no such thing as tornados. Storm Crow just hates trailer parks.
Storm Crow doesn't worry about changing his clock twice a year for daylight savings time. The sun rises and sets when Storm Crow tells it to.
If paper beats rock, rock beats scissors, and scissors beats paper, what beats all 3 at the same time? Answer: Storm Crow.
Storm Crow drinks napalm to quell his heartburn.
If you want a list of Storm Crow's enemies, just check the extinct species list.
If Superman and The Flash were to race to the edge of space you know who would win? Storm Crow.
Storm Crow owns the greatest poker face of all-time. It helped him win the 1983 world series of poker despite him holding just a joker, a 2 of clubs, a 7 of spades, and a green number 4 from Uno and a monopoly ‘get out of jail free’ card.
Storm Crow invented water.
Storm Crow is Luke Skywalker’s real father.
Storm Crow got a perfect score on his SAT's, simply by writing Storm Crow for every answer.
Aliens do exist. They're just waiting for Storm Crow to die before they attack. Too bad Storm Crow is immortal.
I have a more traditional sense of values and priorities, I have a picture of my wife and my daughter in my wallet.
But... my wife and my daughter are storm crows.
All jokes aside, not as good as bouncing a Spark Elemental along with something big of your opponent's, zapping your opponent for three with a Lightning Bolt meanwhile Gelectrode-ing three times on an unsuspecting bukkake victim. But a legit card nonetheless when you're presented with a limited choice and some really bad vanilla. This is... playable vanilla. Like Kraken Hatchling.
OK, I originally asked what was with all the storm crow jokes, but since no one wants to tell me, I'll try to figure it out:
Theory 1: It's so BAD like Wood Elemental or Chimney Imp that it deserves sarcastic levels of mockery.
Analysis: While typical mockery sometimes does mention Chimney Imp in the same vein as this, it's clearly NOT as bad as that. In limited, it isn't a bad two-drop.
Theory 2: There's something inherently comedic about the creature type, art, or flavor text.
Analysis: Doesn't seem to hold up. There are plenty of cards that use rhyme/poetry in their flavor text. Bird is a pretty common creature type in {u} and {w} especially. The 9th edition art actually looks kind of nice -- like something someone might paint while spending a day at the lake.
Theory 3: Someone started mocking it for whatever reason way back when and everyone since then just decided to go along with it and never wondered why. No one remembers the original reason anymore.
Analysis: This seems to explain why no one can tell me what got the storm crow jokes going. I'm going with this theory.
I stocked up.
Storm Crow is strictly better than your mom OH ZING!
It has Zinged, Zanged and Zung all those that came before it.
RnD once thought about printing a card strictly better than Storm Crow, that's right, they THOUGHT about it.
I opened one in a booster pack once. There were no survivors.
If you think about it, Storm Crow comes with reach too, so it's almost like having two abilities. Incredible card.....
Storm Crow, the Win Sculptor
Planeswalker - Storm Crow
+1 : Exile target planeswalker. Storm Crow, the Win Sculptor becomes a 1/2 creature with Flying, Hexproof, indestructible, and "this creature's toughness can't be 0." It's still a Planeswalker.
0 : Draw three cards. You can activate this ability any time you could cast an instant.
-1 : Target opponent sacrifices all permanents they control, then discards their hand. This ability has split second.
-10 : You win the game. Your opponent cannot respond at all to this ability except to gape in pure awe.
(9)
"Storm Crow jokes first emerged with Alliances, because you could pitch Storm Crow to Force of Will. The joke began as a reaction to the over-the-top blue hype of the day -- between Force and Diminishing Returns, many people said that Alliances had given Blue all the best cards. There was some serious-sounding hyperventilative discussion of whether it would ever be sane to play any other color. "Alliances broke blue" is the sort of thing people would say, as well as "Force of Will makes any random blue card better than every other card in the game." Stuff like that.
In response to that, people would jokingly assert that Storm Crow must be the most broken card ever, because it was blue and printed in Alliances. This made all the more sense because of the flavor text (you can read "the worst" as "the worst card ever" literally or as "the most devastating card ever" playfully).
Most players who make Storm Crow jokes nowadays aren't aware of the history of this tradition, but hey, it's great fun to see people get so much amusement out of such a mediocre card. And I like the jokes about the new reprint flavor text better anyhow. Storm Crow returning, we'd best get to burning! :)"
If this card is imprinted on a Mirror Golem, does the golem get protection from pure awesome?
"Storm Crow
Storm Crow doesn't care that it's not legal in Standard. When your enters-the-battlefield ability is "you win the game," a deck full of ways to reuse it is just icing on the cake. And it's a two-drop!"
By the by, combos great with Storm Crow, trust me, I'm a doctor 5/5.
oh wait......it dies to removal and/or it destroyed my "pro status" deck, better rate it a 1/5 instead.
"Thats my crow."
I salute thee, Grand Storm Crow, and may thy days of destroying Magic: the Gathering be long and prosperous.
To get me a drink from my ashnod's coupons, but when they got back they scooped.
Filler:
4 Street Wraith
4 Manamorphose
4 Urza's Bauble
4 Mishra's Bauble
4 Gitaxian Probe
Tutors:
4 Summoner's Pact
4 Diabolic Tutor
4 Vampiric Tutor
Manabase:
4 Polluted Delta
4 Underground Sea
4 Tropical Island
4 Breeding Pool
4 Misty Rainforest
4 Watery Grave
Wincon:
4 Storm Crow
rancor
spectral flight
mask of avacyn
vulshok morningstar
silver-inlaid dagger
dryad's favor
this made it a 10/8 with forestwalk, flying,flying a second time, trample, and hexproof. this is the undeniable proof of the true power of the storm crow
An omen ill, claims Arna Kennerüd.
Yet in my heart, its sight brings only love.
For Storm Crow, other two-drops I eschewed.
Play Tarmogoyf? What if my graveyard's light?
I had as lief throw down a Runeclaw Bear!
Tiago's Mage is flashy, but too slight-
That weakling dies to Gut Shot, Zap, or Flare.
No Confidant too Dark shall grace my board,
Since cards for life I'll not so dearly buy.
Though Stoneforge Mystic bring along her Sword,
I'll none of her, until she learns to fly!
No better card did e'er see print in blue
Than Storm Crow, that magnificent 1/2.
0/5
*sarcasm*
Trade away Storm Crows
I use to play MUC Draw-Go. Now I play MUC Crow-Go.
I thought the +1 was:
Exile target permanent. Storm Crow, the Win Sculptor becomes a 1/2 creature with Flying, and "if it were to be exiled, enchanted by an opponent, or put into to the graveyard you win the game". It's still a Planeswalker.
-Davesprite, Homestuck
Hovermyr with a 4ish rating
and floodbringer at 2.5
I know it is a meme and all but I just don't get WHY.
EDIT: Strictly better than storm crow. I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT!
I'm afraid I have to tell you, that Murder dies to Storm Crow....
Edit: Jace, the Mind Sculptor has 37.
16 Creatures
4 Storm Crow
4 Cryptoplasm
4 Phyrexian Metamorph
4 Sakashima's Student
24 Other Spells
4 Rite of Replication
4 Cackling Counterpart
4 Followed Footsteps
4 Stolen Identity
2 Coat of Arms
2 Gravitational Shift
4 Favorable Winds
20 Lands
12 Island
4 Halimar Depths
4 Cavern of Souls
Less Dead cards, Door of Destinies doesn't work (You only cast 4 Birds) And you have Cryptoplasm (Which is a great clone target) The moment you get a Stormcrow, ALL YOUR CRYPTOPLASMS WILL BE SUPERIOUR
He knocked, and after a moments hesitation a gaunt Vedalken flung open the small window flap and demanded a password. Impatient, the cloaked man responded "Storm Crow descending, winter unending." The Vedalken broke out in a crooked grin and responded "Storm crow departing summer is starting! Come in comrade." The door swung open to reveal yet another crooked passageway, and the motley crew pressed onward. "We recently fell under attack by the Golgari Scavengers, it seem's they are looking for more corpses than ever with Niv Mizzet's endgame nearing us, and they just stumble in" The old wizard laughed. "I trust they weren't successful", the stranger retorted bitterly. "See for yourself, here we are!" The Vedalken nodded forward, then withdrew from the stranger's presence.
True to his word, the passage widened, The stranger beamed at the awe inspiring sight laid out before him; a vast aerie turned ossuary as hundreds of thousands of Storm Crows descended on a mound of Golgari re-deceased. Jace Beleren Drew back his hood, longingly observing the flash of blood on blue-black feathers, as he dropped to his knees and wept at the glory that is Storm Crow.
Moral of this story? Storm Crows are silly.
Busted.
20 Black Lotus
20 Storm Crow
20 Chimney Imp
The perfect balance of control and aggro to keep any opponent down. GG
THE CROW TAKES CONTROL OF NICOL BOLAS!!!!!
ALL HAIL THE GREAT CROW!!!!
This also goes for decks that didn't include storm crow.
First time I layed my eyes upon this beauty I couldn't help myself but crow a Storm Crow.
Pun: A+
2 Stars and it can fly into a shed and lock itself inside.
For some hymns in reverence to the great Storm Crow (the guy obviously named himself after the card)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9a8HTVzhro
Real men know that, if you're looking for a card that'll help you score, it's gotta be the Storm Crow.
Island
Chrome Mox
Discard Storm Crow for imprint
Cast Tinker for Blightsteel Colossus, Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, or any of the other uber-powered, super-broken artifact creatures that somehow managed to make it past testing without being pulled.
Research // Development (Research), 600x Storm Crows in your backpack, Cloven Casting on the table, some 10-12 lands in place. Rest can be whatever suits you. (I recommend playing a maindeck with 28 Islands, 20 Mountains, 4 Reliquary Towers, 4 Treasure Hunts and 4 Storm Crows)
The second your opponent realizes what you're doing, GG.
Things you can do with Storm Crow:
-Win on turn 23 by itself. I know right. Crazy stuff. Imagine that with extra turn effects.. broken as hell.
-Pitch it to Force of Will. I mean how many cards can you do that with?
-Fly over Phyrexian Obliterator, Progenitus and Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre. So you can't even stop that 23 turn clock. That's power creep for you.
-Kill 1/1 soldier tokens all day. Yes I'll kill that one.. and this one and that one.
-Make it indestructible with Darksteel Plate. That's why it's banned in Commander.
-Give it infect with Phyresis and win in TEN turns. Oh my god.
-Give it protection from black with the swords and it's immune to Doom Blade! or red and it's immune to Bolt!
"With power acquired blue crows will sing
Cast to release the havoc they bring"
We were warned by the Monsaic. We did not listen.
Now it is too late. All hail the great Storm Crow.
"It looks like this guy ran into some-"
*puts on sunglasses*
"stormy weather."
YEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!
1) Play Storm Crow during Turn 2
2) Play Moonlace on Storm Crow.
3) Swing out with Storm Crow for flying colorless damage.
The game is as good as over.
12 Storm Crow
4 Sword of Light and Shadow
4 Sword of Fire and Ice
2 Umezawa's Jitte
4 Whispersilk Cloak
4 Cranial Plating
2 Mindslaver
4 Loxodon Warhammer
4 Sword of Vengeance
4 Blade of the Bloodchief
12 Island
2 Mirror Gallery
2 Tolarian Academy
SO MUCH FUN TO PLAY THIS DECK.
It's rated so high because of Lord of the Rings geeks.
What? That's not it at all.
This card is rated so high because it is the strongest card ever printed. It has so many versatile uses.
@at0micpickle
It's a 1/2 flying for 2. You will never understand the power of storm crow.
Better power/toughness than tarmogoyf when the graveyards are empty, and it has flying. That's ridiculous. It even trades with dark confidant. Better stats than arcbound ravager as well.
Those are some of the best 2-drops in the entire game. They can't even touch this. They don't even have flying.
EDIT
Another note:
This card is legal in modern, but wasn't reprinted in modern masters, but the above cards I mentioned were. It's because this card is too powerful to be printed again.
@ Gambling Addict you know what cards are better too, Hovermyr and Metropolis sprite
Wizards I hope you're listening.
Sure, a 1/2 flier for
Storm is a broken mechanic, and Crow is the best Storm card.
;)
Yeah I know, it'll totally make up for the Kamigawa Dragons in the original Modern Masters.....
he scoops his one land off the table
FROM THE VAULT: STORM CROW
(MSRP: $300)
5/5
NOW I know why this card is so powerful: It's Urza! The storm crow is Urza!
http://www.stormcrowtavern.com/
-Swag_Crow
Storm Crow isn't strong because it's Urza, Urza is strong because he's a Storm Crow.
...It's actually very doable XD
Kjeldoran Guard -> Infantry Veteran -> Stern Marshal -> Auriok Bladewarden -> Rite of Replication -> Storm Crow. Didn't think it would work, but wow, that's so awesome!
This card is the epitome of good. A lot of examples have been already shown - combos great with Islands, can fly over any non-flyer, you don't have to sac it to make it good like Black Lotus, etc.
Not to mention it can be equipped with Razor Boomerang. The 'Storm' mechanic is what really makes this card, though. If Wizards had made it a 0/1, it may have some balance to it, but as of now it's overpowered as hell. I'd normally wish a card such as this hadn't been made but he's been the source of most of my victories, even with nonblue decks.
I predict this card will raise 40-50 dollars in value in the next few months. Stock up now.
k
- R.L. Stine , Storm Chaser , squad 564, boy scouts.
18 Creatures
4 Storm Crow
4 Clone
4 Phyrexian Metamorph
4 Sakashima's Student
2 Quicksilver Gargantuan
18 Other Spells
4 Rite of Replication
4 Stolen Identity
4 Cackling Counterpart
4 Followed Footsteps
1 Gravitational Shift
1 Back From The Brink
24 Lands
12 Island
4 Halimar Depths
4 Lonely Sandbar
4 Tolaria West
I welcome your suggestions and criticisms. All glory to the great Storm Crow!
No need to read any other comments, Simply move on and forget about this *** card.