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Harness the Storm

Enchantment2 generic manaRed mana

The wrinkle that makes this enchantment a build-around is the matching-name clause: it does not let you replay any spell from your graveyard, only one that shares a name with the spell you just cast from hand. That single restriction is the whole design. It pushes you toward redundancy, toward decks running multiple copies of cheap instants and sorceries so that casting the first copy reaches back and recurs the second. The payoff scales with how disposable your spells are: a one-mana cantrip or a small burn spell wants to be cast again, while a singleton bomb leaves the enchantment idle. Note the parenthetical reminder that you still pay costs, so this is recursion, not a discount; it is built to double your spell density, not your mana efficiency. The trigger fires on cast from hand, which means it stacks with itself across a turn as you chain matching names, and it rewards graveyard-filling effects that load up duplicates to dig back into. It belongs to the strain of red enchantments that turn the graveyard into a second hand rather than a resource to exile, sitting closer to a recursion engine than to the burn-and-replay tradition red usually leans on. The card asks a deckbuilding question first: how many of your spells are worth casting twice, and can you afford to run four of each?

Harness the Storm (psoi)
PSOI · #163srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand, you may cast target card with the same name as that spell from your graveyard. (You still pay its costs.)
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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