I think Grapeshot the most obviously comparable card. They have the same mana cost, this needs a Storm count of about 16 to win assuming you haven't been doing much else in the game and you just have the one card, while Grapeshot needs 19. Brain Freeze also has the advantage of being an instant.
However, Grapeshot is probably a card I'm more likely to use. I think red can deal a point of damage more easily than blue can mill three, and it's also a color with some very nice Storm enablers like Rite of Flame.
But, both I think are good and have their places. I guess you could even run both in the same deck and use the Grapeshot for creature removal and an alternate win condition.
I suggest looking at Archive Trap. Come to think of it, Archive Trap and Grapeshot have both found use in Pyromancer Ascension decks.
Posted By:
Gelzo
(9/7/2011 11:26:19 PM)
in response to your Brainstorm, play a bunch of High Tides, Resets, Turnabouts, and this card to mill you. Brainstorm resolves?
Posted By:
NeverendingDream
(6/23/2010 3:04:46 AM)
Between this, Prophecy/SkyScribing, Windfall, and Sanity Grinding I have a deck based on High Tide shenanigans that mills semi-reliably up to 3 opponents on turn 3. Further, it's immune to the effects of lame cards that go back to the library or similar because it does a good dose of it's milling via drawing. How joyous!
Thank you brainfreeze, for being awesome.
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(4/11/2011 1:12:25 AM)
By far the best storm card I've come accross. The best part is that you don't even have to fule it, let your opponent fule it for you
Posted By:
VampireChild85
(6/30/2009 7:45:56 AM)
So wait... can you chain this to someone's Grapeshot after they go off to mill them for a ton? Considering they won't play their grapeshot until they've dug into their deck quite a ways, this could a killer counter.
Posted By:
GooblinGrenade
(1/25/2012 5:16:45 PM)
Lol, what more do we want out of this card? This is a 5 star card. I can understand if we were debating which is the best mill/dump card ever, but I love the fact that Wizards found another way to give you a mill option. Of course the Storm effect leaves little question to what we’re supposed to do with this card, lol. Love the ideas and suggestions in the discussions here, thanks :)
Posted By:
Chrs84
(4/9/2012 8:59:55 PM)
@Goblin Grenade: You could, but you'd still lose, unless you had a way to also make them draw a card. I was thinking about running this in EDH to counter all those people who use Palinchron to go infinite, but they still have the rest of the turn to kill me before they lose. And it also doesn't work against people who have Eldrazi titans. So meh. If only Tendrils of Agony was instant.....
Posted By:
Kelptic183
(5/20/2012 5:36:13 AM)
Sup dawg, we heard you maindeck Brainstorm, so we put some Storm in your deck so you can deck your opponent by storming brains while you brainstorm. :)
Posted By:
Salient
(1/12/2013 11:54:13 AM)
Cipher. That is all. Lazav, Dimir MastermindParanoid DelusionsWhispering MadnessInvisible StalkerHidden Strings
Play as many as possible. attack with Invisible Stalker, cast all the Cipher, then this. 2 mana finisher.
Posted By:
KvotheBloodless
(6/24/2013 8:43:10 PM)
Favourite blue finisher!
5/5
Posted By:
Combofriend
(7/2/2013 8:47:09 PM)