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Ral, Caller of Storms

Legendary Planeswalker — Ral4 generic manaBlue manaRed mana

Six mana for a planeswalker whose plus does nothing but draw a card tells you exactly what kind of Ral this is: a top-of-curve card-advantage engine for a control shell that has already stabilized, not a threat you deploy into a tight race. The +1 is the floor Izzet control wants anyway, ticking him toward the ultimate while refilling the hand, and the -2 gives him a flexible removal mode, three damage split however you like across one, two, or three targets or dropped on a single creature. The reason to run a walker this expensive, though, is the ultimate. Draw seven, then deal seven damage to each creature your opponents control: the card windfall is the guaranteed half, since it fires no matter what the board looks like, while the sweep is a soft one. Because it hits each opposing creature without targeting, it rolls right over hexproof and shroud, but it is a toughness check rather than a hard reset, killing anything with seven or less toughness and no protection while genuine fatties survive. That gap is the point. He is not a wrath button so much as an overwhelming draw refuel stapled to a board-scaled burst of damage. The design tension is the distance between an unremarkable base loyalty ability and a backbreaking finisher, the classic control-walker shape: he asks a patient deck to defend him across several turns of incremental value before the payoff arrives, and repays that patience rather than any attempt to close quickly.

Ral, Caller of Storms (grn)
GRN · #265mythic
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Oracle Text

Rules text

+1: Draw a card. −2: Ral deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three targets. −7: Draw seven cards. Ral deals 7 damage to each creature your opponents control.
Legalities

Format Status

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