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CardName: Copybolt Cost: U Type: Sorcery Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: When may cast Copybolt as a copy of an instant or sorcery spell in your graveyard with converted mana cost 1. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Multiverse Design Challenge None

Copybolt
{u}
 
Sorcery
When may cast Copybolt as a copy of an instant or sorcery spell in your graveyard with converted mana cost 1.
Created on 31 May 2013 by Jack V

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2013-05-31 11:56:30: Jack V created the card Copybolt

For Challenge # 078

Hm. Blue. 1 mana. 2 damage. Blue shock. We have red shock (shock), black shock (Disfigure), white shock (Harm's Way). How do we get blue shock?

OK, this is stretching "burn spell", but red probably gets most of the good 1-mana spells (apart from things like Path to Exile), so this is probably a burn spell a lot of the time.

Surely it's always Natural Selection or Swords to Plowshares? I admit, Dark Ritual and Lightning Bolt are pretty good options too though, and Unsummon is a bit uninspiring :)

OK, yes, if you're playing in a format where Dark Ritual or Swords to Plowshares are legal, and you want more copies of them, this can join the ridiculously broken squad.

But my point is, in most formats, you can't guarantee to have a ridiculously broken one-mana spell in your graveyard by the time you want to cast this spell (after all, even if you do, it's only broken because of the cost, if you have to mill yourself for lots first, you could just play a 2-mana white removal spell instead).

But in a U/R deck, you pretty much can guarantee to have a 1-mana red burn spell in your graveyard, because there's nothing quite like Dark Ritual, but there's dozens of cards which are basically "shock with a different name" which are always fairly playable at any point in the game.

Heh. Interesting argument. (As a nitpick I'd say Righteous Blow is the simpler white Shock; although Harm's Way is better, it's less reprintable due to planeswalker interactions.)

Heh. Another option for Copybolt might be... another Copybolt. I say might, because the card currently reads "When may cast Copybolt..."

I assume you don't want infinite "When you cast a spell" triggers to go off... so may I suggest Copybolt gets reworded as a copy of the spell when you cast it? Or does that not work in Magic legalese? I admit, it's kind of weird when it comes to the targeting rules...

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