Can Hindering Touch storm itself?
Asked by hosshughes 8 years ago
Here's my situation: I have a Talrand, Sky Summoner EDH deck that likes to use a bunch of small CMC instants at the end of my opponent's turn to create a bunch of drake tokens that can swing in for damage on my turn. Tell me if my logic is correct: I could cast 5 instants and then cast Hindering Touch. This would mean I would have 6 copies of Hindering Touch (original + copies for other 5 instants). If I stack the Hindering Touches on themselves, since it's an even number, I would end up countering none of my original spells but getting the credit for casting and thereby creating a drake (11 in our example if I'm correct). Am I thinking the right way?
lemmingllama says... Accepted answer #2
Talrand, Sky Summoner will only give you tokens when you cast a spell. Casting Hindering Touch will give you one drake, not 6 drakes, because storm simply creates copies rather than you casting those copies.
And for your main question, the copies of Hindering Touch could target the original Hindering Touch. Just have all the copies target the original, and your other spells will resolve without issues.
pskinn01 says... #1
Copies from storm are not cast. So they don't count toward the storm count, nor do they trigger abilities that look for spells being cast.
October 12, 2015 9:39 a.m. Edited.