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Brain Freeze

Brain Freeze

Instant

uncommon

Target player mills three cards. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

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Semantic Tags

Millmechanical

To mill a number of cards, a player puts that many cards from the top of their library into their graveyard. See rule 701.17.

Self-Millmechanical

An effect that puts cards from your own library into your graveyard for value.

Spellslingermechanical

Rewards casting instants and sorceries. Includes magecraft, prowess triggers, and spell-count payoffs.

Stormmechanical

A keyword ability that creates copies of a spell. See rule 702.40, “Storm.”

Stormvector

A keyword ability that creates copies of a spell. See rule 702.40, “Storm.”

Storm Thememechanical

Storm count strategies — casting many spells in a single turn for storm triggers.

Storm count strategies — casting many spells in a single turn for storm triggers.

Format Legality

commanderlegal
oathbreakerlegal
modernnot legal
pioneernot legal
standardnot legal
legacylegal
vintagelegal
paupernot legal
historiclegal
explorernot legal
alchemynot legal

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Printings (8)

SetRarityTCGplayerCard KingdomCardmarket
Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive#13rare···
Secret Lair Countdown#2rare···
Secret Lair Countdown#29rare···
Mystery Booster 2#24uncommon···
Secret Lair Drop#410rare···
The List#SCG-29uncommon···
Vintage Masters#57uncommon···
Scourge#29uncommon···

Related Concepts

Mill

To mill a number of cards, a player puts that many cards from the top of their library into their graveyard. See rule 701.17.

Storm

A keyword ability that creates copies of a spell. See rule 702.40, “Storm.”

Related Rules

206.3c

One card (Apocalypse Chime) refers to permanents with a name originally printed in the Homelands™ expansion. Those names are Abbey Gargoyles; Abbey Matron; Aether Storm; Aliban’s Tower; Ambush; Ambush Party; Anaba Ancestor; Anaba Bodyguard; Anaba Shaman; Anaba Spirit Crafter; An-Havva Constable; An-Havva Inn; An-Havva Township; An-Zerrin Ruins; Apocalypse Chime; Autumn Willow; Aysen Abbey; Aysen Bureaucrats; Aysen Crusader; Aysen Highway; Baki’s Curse; Baron Sengir; Beast Walkers; Black Carriage; Broken Visage; Carapace; Castle Sengir; Cemetery Gate; Chain Stasis; Chandler; Clockwork Gnomes; Clockwork Steed; Clockwork Swarm; Coral Reef; Dark Maze; Daughter of Autumn; Death Speakers; Didgeridoo; Drudge Spell; Dry Spell; Dwarven Pony; Dwarven Sea Clan; Dwarven Trader; Ebony Rhino; Eron the Relentless; Evaporate; Faerie Noble; Feast of the Unicorn; Feroz’s Ban; Folk of An-Havva; Forget; Funeral March; Ghost Hounds; Giant Albatross; Giant Oyster; Grandmother Sengir; Greater Werewolf; Hazduhr the Abbot; Headstone; Heart Wolf; Hungry Mist; Ihsan’s Shade; Irini Sengir; Ironclaw Curse; Jinx; Joven; Joven’s Ferrets; Joven’s Tools; Koskun Falls; Koskun Keep; Labyrinth Minotaur; Leaping Lizard; Leeches; Mammoth Harness; Marjhan; Memory Lapse; Merchant Scroll; Mesa Falcon; Mystic Decree; Narwhal; Orcish Mine; Primal Order; Prophecy; Rashka the Slayer; Reef Pirates; Renewal; Retribution; Reveka, Wizard Savant; Root Spider; Roots; Roterothopter; Rysorian Badger; Samite Alchemist; Sea Sprite; Sea Troll; Sengir Autocrat; Sengir Bats; Serra Aviary; Serra Bestiary; Serra Inquisitors; Serra Paladin; Serrated Arrows; Shrink; Soraya the Falconer; Spectral Bears; Timmerian Fiends; Torture; Trade Caravan; Truce; Veldrane of Sengir; Wall of Kelp; Willow Faerie; Willow Priestess; Winter Sky; and Wizards’ School.

702.40a

Storm is a triggered ability that functions on the stack. “Storm” means “When you cast this spell, copy it for each other spell that was cast before it this turn. If the spell has any targets, you may choose new targets for any of the copies.”

702.40

Storm

614.13c

While applying a replacement effect that modifies how a permanent enters the battlefield, another replacement effect may cause a player to mill cards or exile cards from the top of a library. In that case, any card that is entering the battlefield from that library won’t be included in that effect, even though those cards are in the library as the effect is applied.

701.17

Mill

701.17a

For a player to mill a number of cards, that player puts that many cards from the top of their library into their graveyard.

701.17b

A player can’t mill a number of cards greater than the number of cards in their library. If given the choice to do so, they can’t choose to take that action. If instructed to do so, they mill as many as possible. Similarly, the player can’t pay a cost that includes milling a number of cards greater than the number of cards in their library.

702.40b

If a spell has multiple instances of storm, each triggers separately.

Rulings

2022-12-08

A copy of a spell can be countered like any other spell, but it must be countered individually. Countering a spell with storm won't affect the copies.

2022-12-08

The triggered ability that creates the copies can itself be countered by anything that can counter a triggered ability. If it is countered, no copies will be put onto the stack.

2022-12-08

Spells cast from zones other than a player's hand and spells that were countered are counted by the storm ability.

2022-12-08

You may choose new targets for any of the copies. You can make different choices for each copy.

2022-12-08

The copies are put directly onto the stack. They aren't cast and won't be counted by other spells with storm cast later in the turn.