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CardName: Storm Path Cost: {1}{R}{R} Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Prayer (As you cast this spell you may tap a creature of a different color. If you do, this spell gains that creature's colors.) Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. If Storm Path is blue, counter target spell. If Storm Path is green, destroy up to one target creature with flying. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Pantheon of Szykielwa Rare

Storm Path
{1}{r}{r}
 
 R 
Instant
Prayer (As you cast this spell you may tap a creature of a different color. If you do, this spell gains that creature's colors.)
Copy target instant or sorcery spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
If Storm Path is blue, counter target spell. If Storm Path is green, destroy up to one target creature with flying.
Updated on 02 May 2021 by Sorrow

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2021-03-02 11:33:10: Sorrow created the card Storm Path
2021-03-02 11:34:03: Sorrow edited Storm Path:

Changed green from draw a card to destroy aa flier to be more flavorful.

Okay, by copying a spell, then countering it, I basically take control of it... Where does the flying hate come from? These effects do not line up to a grokkable whole.

I think the flying hate came from the name.

It does feel a bit random, mechanically. "Here's two things to do with a target spell. And here's a third option, to shoot down a flier. Totes the same card."

Note: If you're the only player with a flying creature, and you make a green copy of this spell, you will destroy your own flying creature. I recommend using 'up to one target flying creature'.

Note two: The timing on this is off. If I cast this and make a blue copy, the original spell will target and go on the stack, then the blue copy will target and go on the stack. The blue copy goes off, and I make a copy of my opponent's spell, and counter their spell. Then the red copy goes off. The original spell that the red copy was copying is no longer there (it's been countered), so the red copy fizzles.

"The red copy"? There's only one copy of storm path. It's blue, and copies and counters.

2021-04-26 09:50:28: Sorrow edited Storm Path:

"destroy target creature with flying" to "destroy up to one target creature with flying"

Oh, wait. Prayer doesn't make a copy of the spell, it just changes the color? Well that addresses the power level issues of this card that I didn't think were appropriate to bring up. 😅

Yeah, since there's only one copy of this spell itself, you don't need to worry about having to target your own flier. Just don't tap your green creature. Unless it's Emmara, Soul of the Accord, I guess? But then, the blue line doesn't have "up to one" which prevents you from using this to Fork your own spells and tap your Fallowsage into the bargain. Eh, it's all edge cases.

I think it's reasonable to assume that if you're playing this card, the optimal choice is to play U/R/G with blue/green multicolored cards. And if you're playing mostly blue/green multicolored creatures, then the chance that the only creature on the battlefield is a blue/green multicolored flying creature is reasonably high.

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