Ball Lightning won't return to it's owner's hand if it's killed by combat damage everyone. If they play this and never have a blocker with 1+/X then OK, but then they have a pretty terrible deck.
State based checks for damage > triggered abilities.
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(2/21/2013 5:00:59 PM)
Everyone complains that playing this lets your opponent beat your face in with Ball Lightning and similar cards. I think I should play this, give it to my opponent with Bazaar Trader or Zedruu then beat them up with my own Ball Lightning.
Posted By:
EvilDarkVoid
(4/17/2013 1:22:11 PM)
I could see this in a casual deck with other annoying enchantment effects like Web of Inertia, Propaganda, Mana Breach, Arcane Laboratory, Winter Orb, Pendrell Mists, etc. What would be your win condition you ask? Making your opponent's concede because they don't want to put up with your cruel and unusual punishment.
Posted By:
lilwolf2005
(7/8/2013 4:59:51 PM)
A fun card. It can ruin your opponents tempo, (Chandra Nalaar) or it can stab you in the back (Ball lightning, or even something as simple as Augury owl)
I would be interested in seeing combos where it bounces something you control, but I can't think of any off the top of my head.
Posted By:
Enelysios
(7/13/2013 1:15:03 PM)
The nice thing about this is that it works on things with shroud/hexproof like invisible stalker.
The only annoying part is that you have to take damage before it goes into effect, but hopefully if the thing that's dealing damage is big enough to really hurt you, you have some other bounce spells to deal with it before it can deal damage to you.
Sun Droplet if an effective (and cheap) solution to the main drawback of this card, especially if you have multiple copies on the table.
Posted By:
Xycolian
(10/1/2013 5:15:43 PM)
I use this in an Iron Maiden deck. Gives me enough time to get and play my other cards. Unsummon big creatures so they can't one-attack-kill me.
Think they can just recast all those weenies the same turn?
Wait for them to declare attackers and respond with Sunder.
Posted By:
Dankirk
(3/18/2014 2:42:27 AM)