For Challenge # 044.

I had this idea just about simultaneously to Cymerdown's Echoes of Power. But it seems possible that this simpler version could be costed at R as well. Lots of cheaper/repeatable copy effects have targeted spells you control, which I think makes sense, as that's normally more useful, but also less swingy.

Whereas this is usually not that useful as the opponent probably won't be playing the spells you need. But on the occasions where they play fireball for 10, it will be spectacular. And I don't think the cheaper cost makes that much difference; if you're copying something really expensive, you probably have enough mana to leave Reverberate mana up anyway. I think this is probably still too cheap, but still not that strong for non-optimists :)

Yeah, this looks exactly like a card Wizards might print, actually. :) And Timmy would love the idea of copying anything cool his opponent might do "for almost free!!". It's the kind of effect that Timmy would pat himself on the back for putting in his deck even when it's usually not going to end up being as great as he thinks, because every once in a while it's going to be AMAZING and he'll tell all of his friends about it, and he'll forget all the games where it didn't do much.

It's true. I assume there are many Timmys who toss copies of Fork and Twincast in their deck with nothing to Fork or Twincast. They only pack them to see what they can snag. Why not reward them?

Yup, I agree with everything said here.