Card
Najal, the Storm Runner
Mana cost {2}{U}{U}{R}
Legendary Creature — Efreet Wizard 5/4
You may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash. Whenever Najal attacks, you may pay {2}. If you do, when you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 14 known combos. 4 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Uncommon · DMU · #208
- Cheapest printing
- €0.03
- EDHREC salt
- 0.33
- Color identity
- Red, Blue
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
14 known combos.
- Najal, the Storm Runner + Worldfire + End the Festivities
Produces: Each opponent loses the game, Exile all cards in hands and graveyards, Exile all permanents
View on Commander Spellbook - Ashling, Flame Dancer + Worldfire + Najal, the Storm Runner
Produces: Each opponent loses the game, Exile all cards in hands and graveyards, Exile all permanents
View on Commander Spellbook - Najal, the Storm Runner + Wheel of Misfortune + Mindslaver
Produces: Near-infinite damage to one opponent
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2022-09-09 · Wizards of the Coast
You can't choose to pay any additional costs for the copy created by Najal's delayed triggered ability. However, effects based on any additional costs that were paid for the original spell are copied as though those same costs were paid for the copy too. - 2022-09-09 · Wizards of the Coast
If the spell that's copied is modal (that is, it says "Choose one —" or the like), the copy created by Najal's delayed triggered ability will have the same mode or modes. You can't choose different ones. - 2022-09-09 · Wizards of the Coast
The copies that Najal's ability creates are created on the stack, so they're not "cast." Abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell won't trigger. - 2022-09-09 · Wizards of the Coast
If the spell that's copied has damage divided as it was cast, the division can't be changed (although the targets receiving that damage still can). The same is true of spells that distribute counters.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast