Question about Thousand-Year Storm
Asked by YoungBroRaizel 5 years ago
my question is simple:
I use 2 Radical Idea, with Thousand-Year Storm on the field, that means it becomes 3 Radical Idea. But what happens if I use a third one from hand, does the copy created by the Thousand-Year Storm counts or not for the total of spells casted?
To add on to what cdkime said, there are two ways that spells are copied in general, and it depends on whether what's being copied is a spell card or a spell on the stack.
If you're copying a spell card, the effect doing the copying will tell you to cast it, usually without paying its mana cost. You'll find this on cards like Isochron Scepter and Mizzix's Mastery, and it's usually because you're copying an exiled card, hence not having to pay its mana cost (since copies of cards also copy their mana costs).
If you're copying a spell on the stack, then the effect doing the copy won't tell you to cast it. This is where cards like Thousand-Year Storm and Doublecast fall. Note the lack of the word "cast" in the copy effect.
This distinction is important for effects like that of Doublecast since they're checking that you're casting the spell first. Casting a second Doublecast will count for the first Doublecast, but the copy you create of the second Doublecast won't because it's not cast.
Caerwyn says... #1
Thousand-Year Storm, like regular storm, only cares about cards that were cast. The copies created by Thousand-Year Storm are put directly onto the stack, and thus are never cast. As such, they don't factor into your Storm count.
October 2, 2018 8:11 p.m.