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Ral, Storm Conduit

Legendary Planeswalker — Ral2 generic manaBlue manaRed mana

Two words in the passive ability carry the whole design: cast or copy. Every instant or sorcery you cast pings an opponent, but so does every copy, and that second trigger quietly turns a spellslinger value engine into a combo detonator. Point the minus at a spell that copies other spells and the counter starts feeding itself: each copy is another cast-or-copy event, another point of damage, and if the copy loop is infinite so is the burn. That is the tension this kind of walker lives inside. Burn-oriented planeswalkers usually deal their damage from a loyalty-costed activated ability with a once-per-turn ceiling; here the damage is passive and unbounded, gated only by how many spells you can chain before the turn ends. The plus is deliberately quiet, a scry that keeps loyalty climbing while you assemble the pieces, and the minus arms your next spell to fork itself in the manner of a Twincast bolted onto a superfriends shell. What makes it genuinely dangerous is that it never asks you to attack, block, or ultimate: the win condition is loyalty-agnostic, sitting on the battlefield and converting a fistful of cheap instants and sorceries into direct damage. Its ceiling is drawn not by any number printed on the card but by the copy effects you surround it with.

Ral, Storm Conduit (war)
WAR · #211★rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, Ral deals 1 damage to target opponent or planeswalker. +2: Scry 1. −2: When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.
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
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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