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CardName: Psionic Storm Cost: 2WW Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: Rules Text: Each player chooses a creature they control. Destroy the rest. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Duel Decks Starcraft: Remastered Rare

Psionic Storm
{2}{w}{w}
 
 R 
Sorcery
Each player chooses a creature they control. Destroy the rest.
Updated on 13 Dec 2018 by jameschanlee

History: [-]

New card. Might change depending on what I want to do with the Tactical Nuke.

2012-10-25 02:40:22: jameschanlee edited Psionic Storm
2014-08-13 05:17:29: jameschanlee edited Psionic Storm:

previous: "Psionic Storm", XWW, Destroy all creatures with converted mana cost X.

This was previously Psistorm. However, for such a landmark ability, it's strange that there's no good artwork. This is the most epic art I have and I think it's fitting, though "purifier beam" is just the name of the Mothership weapon and isn't really in the game.

Now it's a one-sided Balance -ish thing, devastating against Zerg and plays well with how few Protoss creatures there are (plus their propensity to be bounced). Without creatures, it's a Day of Judgment variant. Of course, it could also do nothing.

How's the power level of this thing?

Playtest results: Ah. Fantastic card. Originally thought of bumping up the cost and giving it cycling, but it plays fine as is. The interseting thing about it is if you're facing a Protoss player, you can generally get a feel of whether this card is in his/her hand or not. Then again, he could be bluffing. Really, power level questions aside, this is an excellent card.

2014-08-20 11:16:31: jameschanlee edited Psionic Storm:

best. art. ever.

2014-08-20 22:37:22: jameschanlee edited Psionic Storm:

changed wording to mirror Balance. more "correct", oracle wise, but less intuitive. previously: Each player who controls more creatures than you sacrifices creatures equal to the difference.

2015-03-12 07:55:30: jameschanlee edited Psionic Storm:

Purifier beam -> psionic storm. More resonance with players

2015-04-04 23:25:05: jameschanlee edited Psionic Storm
2016-04-17 12:21:26: jameschanlee edited Psionic Storm

Before:

Psionic Storm {3}{w}{w}
Sorcery [r]
Each player chooses a number of creatures he or she controls equal to the number of creatures controlled by the player with the fewest, then sacrifices the rest.


  • Changed from white balance to sacrificial, non-flashback Divine Reckoning.
  • Less complex to understand, also slightly nerfed to compensate for increase in power from shield keyword.
2016-04-27 05:44:29: jameschanlee edited Psionic Storm:

Destroy -> Exile. Now counters Zergling properly

2017-06-25 22:31:32: jameschanlee edited Psionic Storm:

exile -> destroy

2018-11-13 01:01:59: jameschanlee edited Psionic Storm:

he or she -> they

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