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Legal Salt 1.02Rank #793
Target player mills three cards.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Why is this card good?
Brain Freeze is a niche combo piece, not a fair mill card. Three cards off the top means nothing in a 99-card deck — you'll never grind anyone out one cast at a time. The whole card is Storm.
In a high-power Storm deck, after chaining rituals, cantrips, and rocks, Brain Freeze becomes a kill spell: copy it dozens of times and mill an opponent's entire library, then they deck out on their draw step. It's the classic "Tendrils-style" mill finisher in cEDH Storm shells (think Kess, Dissident Mage or Yidris), often looped with a way to recast it.
Want it if: you're building dedicated Storm/spellslinger combo, especially with high spell density and ways to reset or recur it.
Skip it if: you just want a mill theme — it does nothing without a real Storm count, and a single cast is laughably weak. This is purely a combo payoff for decks that "go off" in one explosive turn.
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Printings (9)
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Rulings (5)
- 2022-12-08
Spells cast from zones other than a player's hand and spells that were countered are counted by the storm ability.
- 2022-12-08
The copies are put directly onto the stack. They aren't cast and won't be counted by other spells with storm cast later in the turn.
- 2022-12-08
A copy of a spell can be countered like any other spell, but it must be countered individually. Countering a spell with storm won't affect the copies.
- 2022-12-08
You may choose new targets for any of the copies. You can make different choices for each copy.
- 2022-12-08
The triggered ability that creates the copies can itself be countered by anything that can counter a triggered ability. If it is countered, no copies will be put onto the stack.