Card

Alania, Divergent Storm

Mana cost {3}{U}{R}

Legendary Creature — Otter Wizard 3/5

Whenever you cast a spell, if it's the first instant spell, the first sorcery spell, or the first Otter spell other than Alania you've cast this turn, you may have target opponent draw a card. If you do, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Part of 13 known combos, 11 of them two-card. 8 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Rare · BLB · #204
Cheapest printing
€0.20
EDHREC salt
0.27
Color identity
Red, Blue

Scryfall · EDHREC

Bracket

Why

  • Two-card combo with Return the Favor, Expansion // Explosion, Reverberate, Increasing Vengeance, Flare of Duplication, Reiterate, Twincast, Wild Ricochet, Insidious Will, Fork, Refuse // Cooperate (none of them early)

How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket

Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags

Combos

13 known combos, 11 of them two-card.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2024-07-26 · Wizards of the Coast
    Alania’s ability and the copy it creates both resolve before the spell that caused the ability to trigger. They resolve even if the spell is countered before the copy is created.
  • 2024-07-26 · Wizards of the Coast
    Any choices made when the spell resolves won’t have been made yet when it’s copied. Any such choices will be made separately when the copy resolves.
  • 2024-07-26 · Wizards of the Coast
    A resolving copy of a permanent spell becomes a token. That token isn’t “created” and won’t interact with abilities that care about tokens being created.
  • 2024-07-26 · Wizards of the Coast
    You can’t choose to pay any additional costs for a copied spell. 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.
  • 2024-07-26 · Wizards of the Coast
    Alania’s ability can trigger up to three times in a single turn: once when you cast your first instant, once when you cast your first sorcery, and once when you cast your first Otter spell other than Alania.
  • 2024-07-26 · Wizards of the Coast
    The copy will have the same targets as the spell it’s copying unless you choose new ones. You may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. If, for one of the targets, you can’t choose a new legal target, then it remains unchanged (even if the current target is illegal).
  • 2024-07-26 · Wizards of the Coast
    The copy is created on the stack, so it’s not “cast.” Abilities that trigger when a player casts a spell won’t trigger.
  • 2024-07-26 · Wizards of the Coast
    If the spell that’s copied has an X whose value was determined as it was cast, the copy has the same value of X.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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