Card
Brain Freeze
Mana cost {1}{U}
Target player mills three cards. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 9 known combos. 5 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Uncommon · SCG · #29
- Cheapest printing
- €2.80
- EDHREC salt
- 1.02
- Color identity
- Blue
- Keywords
- Storm, Mill
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
9 known combos.
- Underworld Breach + Lotus Petal + Brain Freeze
Produces: Infinite self-mill, Near-infinite magecraft triggers, Near-infinite mill
View on Commander Spellbook - Underworld Breach + Lion's Eye Diamond + Brain Freeze
Produces: Infinite self-mill, Near-infinite colored mana, Near-infinite magecraft triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Underworld Breach + Frantic Search + Brain Freeze + High Tide
Produces: Near-infinite blue mana, Near-infinite draw triggers, Near-infinite looting
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2022-12-08 · Wizards of the Coast
A copy of a spell can be countered like any other spell, but it must be countered individually. Countering a spell with storm won't affect the copies. - 2022-12-08 · Wizards of the Coast
The triggered ability that creates the copies can itself be countered by anything that can counter a triggered ability. If it is countered, no copies will be put onto the stack. - 2022-12-08 · Wizards of the Coast
Spells cast from zones other than a player's hand and spells that were countered are counted by the storm ability. - 2022-12-08 · Wizards of the Coast
You may choose new targets for any of the copies. You can make different choices for each copy. - 2022-12-08 · Wizards of the Coast
The copies are put directly onto the stack. They aren't cast and won't be counted by other spells with storm cast later in the turn.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast