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Galvanic Relay

Galvanic Relay

Sorcery

common

Exile the top card of your library. During your next turn, you may play that card. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

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Semantic Tags

Foretellvector

A keyword ability that lets a player exile cards from their hand and cast them for an alternative cost on future turns. See rule 702.143, “Foretell.”

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.

Cares about or manipulates the top card(s) of your library. Includes scry, surveil, and top-deck payoffs.

Format Legality

commanderlegal
oathbreakerlegal
modernlegal
pioneernot legal
standardnot legal
legacylegal
vintagelegal
pauperbanned
historiclegal
explorernot legal
alchemynot legal

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Printings (3)

SetRarityTCGplayerCard KingdomCardmarket
Jumpstart: Historic Horizons#450common···
Modern Horizons 2#406common···
Modern Horizons 2#127common···

Related Concepts

Storm

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

Related Rules

116.2h

A player who has a card with foretell in their hand may pay {2} and exile that card face down. This is a special action. A player may take this action any time they have priority during their turn. See rule 702.143, “Foretell.”

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

702.143b

Exiling a card using its foretell ability is a special action, which doesn’t use the stack. See rule 116, “Special Actions.”

702.40b

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

702.103d

When casting a spell bestowed, only its characteristics as modified by the bestow ability are evaluated to determine if it can be cast.

702.143

Foretell

Rulings

2021-06-18

You can play the exiled card only on your next turn after Galvanic Relay resolves. Notably, this means you cannot play it the same turn you cast Galvanic Relay.

2021-06-18

Playing the card has the same timing restrictions and requires the same payments as normal, but it can only be played next turn.