Crashing Tide

Sorceries with Conditional Flash

There are already a pair of sorceries with conditional flash (Crashing Tide, Mutual Destruction) and a number of others that can be cast as though they had flash if you pay 2 extra or meet some other criteria.

Sorceries that can gain flash are different than one that always has it.

Crashing Tide Flash Mutual Destruction Sorceries

Conditional Flash Sorceries

Regarding conditional flash on sorceries - yes, flash is used. Crashing Tide, Rout, and Swift Reckoning are recent examples, and Quicken can make your next sorcery have flash. But it's always conditional (an additional cost, or controlling a certain thing like a Merfolk).

I stand corrected.

Crashing Tide Flash Merfolk Quicken Rout Sorceries Swift Reckoning

Design Philosophy: Reinvention

I've got to say this: I'm pretty unhappy when every set there seems to be a necessity to sistematically reinvent the wheel. Galestrike and Crashing Tide could've easily been Repulse, what's the point of creating strictly worst versions of it?

Reinventing the wheel is what we do. We could just print Giant Growth every set four times a year or we can do lots and lots of design riffs on it, each one with a different nuance. And yes, some will be strictly worse than others. Not all cards are played together in the same format, sometimes a card is aimed at a constructed format, sometimes a limited one.

Card Printing Constructed Crashing Tide Galestrike Giant Giant Growth Limited Repulse

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