I totally agree with Brad Nelson on this card. (not confirmed canon) Niv Mizzet is very powerful and tries to become a planeswalker, so he get trained by Bolas.
And nearly any planeswalker has their own power spell, like Sorin and Sorin's Vengeance. Now Niv Mizzet comes with this... thing and Bolas is like: "What the hell? This is supposed to be your spell? Did you ever see my Cruel Ultimatum? That's a spell!"
tl;dr Where is Invoke the Firemind?
Posted By:
TexasDice
(5/7/2013 11:26:43 PM)
I'm surprised I'm not seeing any suggestions for getting spells like Comet Storm or Volcanic Geyser. Pair one of those with a Reiterate and you're gold.
Posted By:
mrkristopher
(7/31/2013 6:32:01 PM)
@mrkristopher "I'm surprised I'm not seeing any suggestions for getting spells like Comet Storm or Volcanic Geyser. Pair one of those with a Reiterate and you're gold."
you could certainly tutor for the cards, but you wouldn't want to copy them, as they'd replicate at x=0
Posted By:
veritas723
(3/19/2014 11:14:00 AM)
@veritas: No, that's not true. Copied spells remember all choices made for them, including X-values, modes, and targets. (Which is why all or at least most spell-copying effects add "You may choose new targets for the copy." or similar.) It is true that casting a spell without paying its mana cost requires X to be zero (unless it's set elsewhere), but copying a spell is not casting a spell.
Posted By:
manaderp
(5/8/2014 1:38:28 PM)