Works with Pyrokinesis, Forked Bolt or if you're greedy, Clan Defiance. Blessed Alliance also works and Kolaghan's Command. This sounds like a bad Mardu control deck that can only beat Elves and Maverick, but maybe worth noting.
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I guess I didn't really work it out in my head... I was thinking you could use the Planeswalker's -2, but that doesn't actually work because it's sorcery speed. You would need to activate it in response to a spell already on the stack prior to casting Fork, but you can't do that.
If it requires more than a single Fork spell, the combo is complete garbage.
No that works. I stopped reading after the passive ability so I didn't even see this. You just need a specialized third card.
So, you activate the -2. Then bait your opponent into casting a spell. Or you activate something like isochron scepter to copy a spell, and then cast your fork effect. The fork gets coppied, the copy targets the original, and you go on forever.
Yay.
Requiring the opponent to cast a spell after you activate Ral is pointless. You might catch a few people at first, but once people know what's going on, no one is going to cast a spell after the activation resolves (at least until you cast something).
Requiring an Isochron Scepter also makes this combo garbage. Ral itself might be decent in Modern, I don't know, but trying to combo it with Fork is going to be shit. It needed to require a single Fork. Why would anyone play a 3+ card combo instead of the many other more efficient 2 card combos that hardly see any play as is? The benefit was that both Ral and a Fork are decent cards pre-combo, but unfortunately, a 3+ card combo is trash tier.
The real innovation lies in the "cast or copy" text. Not sure if it can be abused.
Not sure if it really works that a copy spell that copies a copy spell can lead to infinite spell copies. If that where the case this would have been used before, right? (Nivmagus Elemental? Other examples?)
The point is that copying doesn't increase the storm count, but new Ral triggers anyway, right?
And yes you need a third spell as target for the first copy spell, but it can be anything, e.g. 1-mana cantrip. Or you can maybe use an opponent's instant/sorcery!?
Probably still not Legacy playable, and not even good enough for Modern. Cantrip plus 2 copy spells is five mana, Ral is 4 mana and has to stay in play for a round. Everything can be easily countered.
I still find new Ral cool, though.
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The card itself is definitely cool, I was only commenting on the fact that trying to go infinite with two Fork's was a really bad combo.
It still has value by letting you copy a spell, and since it deals damage from spells being cast or copied, it could potentially be a way to win the game in a deck like Ruby Storm instead of something like Guttersnipe.
This one does not suck either. Pyromancer.dec? Mon-Blue Pyromancer.dec?
Dovin being uncommon will probably mean a rare Narset!
Dovin and Saheeli seem strong for uncommon planeswalkers!
For Standard: Ral + 2x Expansion//Explosion + Opt in Standard? Is that better than the existing Thousand-Year Storm Deck?
On first glance Saheeli seems like a Young Pyromancer without body that triggers on noncreature spells (not just instants/sorceries). Is the copy ability any good? It's "becomes" not "creates", and copies only your stuff.
Being blue means can be pitched to FoW.
How does the copy ability work with Thing in the Ice? If you make the token copy TITI, it will have no counters on it, then if you cast an instant or sorcery can the Token transform even though it does not have a flip side? Any other creature/artifact that you can cast, create token, copy to get a crazy effect?
Fair enough. In that case the best I can come up with is to Cast YP/Mentor - copy the token you just created to be a YP/Mentor and then go crazy with token generation? That worth it?
On that note - with Beacon and SOL Lands, its pretty easy to do turn 1 chalice turn 2 multicolored 3CMC PW - with Dovin, Tefri, and Saheeli, and anything else maybe even a PW stompy deck that can run chalice and FOW.
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