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    Spark Barrage
    Sorcery
    When you cast ~ from your hand all instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard become copies of ~ until end of turn.
    ~ deals 1 damage to target creature.
    Flashback




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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy wurm View Post

    Spark Barrage
    Sorcery
    When you cast ~ from your hand all instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard become copies of ~ until end of turn.
    ~ deals 1 damage to target creature.
    Flashback
    Harvest Pyre meets Fireball?

    I feel like there should be a cleaner way to do this (and Remove the restriction on instant/sorcery cards in graveyards, if we're doing it without flashback), but I don't know if there is.

    The best I could come up with is:

    Multikicker and exile a card from your graveyard (You may pay an additional and exile a card from your graveyard any number of times as you cast this spell.)
    CARDNAME deals 1 damage to target creature, then deals 1 damage to target creature for each time it was kicked.

    Which is cleaner but still weirdddddd - and admittedly, probably less sexy than making spells in your yard a copy of a spell with flashback, which just tickles me. But then, I'm a dredge player, so.

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    the idea is that it also does fun stuff with cards like Burning Vengeance




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    I think marginal (i.e. only a small handful of cards) interactions are side-effects, not explicit goals, of good designs - but that's just a rule of thumb, not a strict maxim.

    If this were in a set like Innistrad or Dark Ascension that would probably make sense; in a vacuum I'd look for a slightly cleaner design personally.

    Yours does feel more red than mine in a vacuum, though.

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    well it's not just that, it also triggers storm and can do some other fun stuff, but I didn't build it for that, I built it because I liked the idea of turning cards in a graveyard into another card with flashback. Also I'd assume that this would be in a block with other flashback cards and whatnot. In fact I went back and forth on whether the copy ability should be a maybe because right now it "overwrites" the cards in your graveyard for the turn you cast it. Over all I went with it as is because I liked the tension and because it felt cleaner.




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