Storm is a keyword ability on instants and sorceries that creates a copy of the spell for each spell played before it in the current turn.
The first cards with Storm were printed in Scourge, with more being printed in Time Spiral.
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Rulings
- The storm copies are put directly onto the stack -- they aren't played. That means the copies don't generate storm copies themselves, and they aren't counted by other storm spells played later during the turn.
- Each storm spell with a target allows you to change the target for each copy of that spell. You make that choice for each copy individually.
- When counting spells played in a turn, you do count spells that were played face down, spells played from zones other than a hand, and spells that were countered.
- A copy of a spell can be countered, just like any other spell, but each copy has to be countered individually. Countering a storm spell won't counter the copies of it.
- Removing a card from the game using suspend doesn't count as playing a spell; you only play a suspended spell when you remove the last time counter from it and that ability resolves.
- When a spell like Twincast copies a spell that has storm, the copied spell's storm ability doesn't trigger. You get just one new spell.
Example
Color percentages
There is a total of 19 cards that involve storm, which divide by color as such:
- Red = 42 %
- Green = 25 %
- Black = 11 %
- Blue = 11 %
- White = 11 %
Notable cards with storm
- Tendrils of Agony - Vintage and Legacy Storm Decks (main win condition)
- Empty the Warrens - Vintage and Legacy Storm Decks (main/alternate win condition)
- Brain Freeze - Legacy Storm Decks (main win condition for High Tide)
- Mind's Desire - Vintage Storm Decks (TPS, Tendrils of Agony win condition)
- Grapeshot - Modern Storm Decks (main win condition)
- Dragonstorm - Ravnica/Coldsnap/Time Spiral Standard Storm Decks
Storm scale
Mark Rosewater has declared that he doesn’t ever see Storm coming back. On Blogatog, he uses the"Storm scale" - a scale of 1 through 10 where 10 is Storm - when he answers questions about the likelyhood of the return of a mechanic. [1] 1= will definitely see again, 10 = never say never, but this is pretty close to never.