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CardName: Spirit Flames Cost: R Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Spirit Flames deals 2 damages to target creature or planeswalker. Triumph {1}{R} (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, and that creature was cast from your hand, you may cast this card from your graveyard for its triumph cost.) If Spirit Flames was cast from your graveyard, exile it. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Spirits of Avalon None

Spirit Flames
{r}
 
Instant
Spirit Flames deals 2 damages to target creature or planeswalker.
Triumph {1}{r} (Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, and that creature was cast from your hand, you may cast this card from your graveyard for its triumph cost.)
If Spirit Flames was cast from your graveyard, exile it.
Updated on 20 Feb 2020 by NoZip

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2020-02-05 15:31:49: NoZip created the card Spirit Flames

This is some serious value town. Something like infinite Firebolt at instant speed (that can't target players.

I agree with Tahazzar- this is seems pretty bonkers due to being easily repeatedly as an instant (or of you made any sorcery ones). The mechanic might be okay on the auras (though I don't remember their Triumph costs- they'd probably need to be high-costed like Bestow). Alternatively, if the card exiled after being Triumphed the first time, that would probably work too.

Yeah. Flashback variants are a golden area of mechanic design, but the "exile on resolution" part is vital to prevent repetition of play problems. That was a big issue even with retrace.

From a nitpicky pov, the reminder text could be significantly improved. You don't need the timing restriction clause, because that's inherent: you're casting the spell during the resolution of an ability to begin with. If you really want to ignore timing restrictions (which mildly runs afoul of NWO by turning sorceries into on-board tricks in your graveyard), I suggest

"Whenever a creature ETBs under your control, if it wasn't cast from your hand, you may cast this card from your graveyard for its triumph cost. [If you do, exile it as it resolves.]"

Hmm, that also gets problematic in Commander

I would maybe consider changing the name. It's really close to the existing card, "Soul's Fire"

2020-02-10 10:41:27: NoZip edited Spirit Flames
2020-02-20 09:51:15: NoZip edited Spirit Flames

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