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Brainstorm 
Instant
Brainstorm appeared in 2,913 MTGO Challenge Top-8 decks over the past 12 months, averaging 2.6 copies per deck. Its current TCGplayer price is $2.16.
Oracle Text
Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.
Format Legality
LegacyVintagePauperPremodernDuel Commander
Competitive Play by Format
Top 8 decklists that played Brainstorm, by format.
| Format | Decks 30d | Avg 30d | Decks 12mo | Avg 12mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legacy | 90 | 3.9 | 1153 | 3.9 |
| Vintage | 47 | 1 | 692 | 1 |
| Duel Commander | 14 | 1 | 628 | 1 |
| Pauper | 49 | 3.5 | 440 | 3.6 |
Details
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Source Material
- Rarity
- Mythic Rare
- Mana value
- 1
- Collector #
- 4
Non-foilFoilFull ArtBorderless
Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Brainstorm
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 1 Balance
$1.10
0.14 tix - 2 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Disenchant
$0.10
0.03 tix
- 2 Fragmentize
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Kataki, War's Wage
$0.88
0.02 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix - 1 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.22 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
5
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (10)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (9)
Lands (28)
- 2 Bayou$226.24 7.82 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.83 0.01 tix
- 4 Dark Depths$1.70 0.22 tix
- 3 Gemstone Mine$2.18 7.88 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Sejiri Steppe$0.31 0.03 tix
- 4 Thespian's Stage$0.31 0.02 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 4 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth$58.03 0.02 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
8
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (15)
Instants (14)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (17)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.82 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 2 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 2 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
Sideboard
- 3 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.03 tix - 1 Duress
$0.08
0.01 tix
- 2 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 2 Golgari Charm
$0.89
0.03 tix
- 1 Iona, Shield of Emeria
$3.68
0.02 tix - 1 Massacre
$0.51
1.01 tix - 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
$0.24
0.02 tix - 2 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
2
Final: 2 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (16)
Enchantments (3)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (1)
Enchantments (1)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (21)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.82 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 2 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 2 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
- 1 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
- 2 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 1 Balance
$1.10
0.14 tix
- 2 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Disenchant
$0.10
0.03 tix
- 2 Fragmentize
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.22 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
1
Final: 1 |
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (6)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (19)
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix - 1 Murderous Cut
$0.32
0.03 tix - 1 Dig Through Time
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
0.03 tix
- 4 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.03 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Steel Sabotage
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 4 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Lands (18)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 7.82 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 3 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.43 1.27 tix
- 3 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Crucible of Worlds
$21.00
0.02 tix
- 1 Dismember
$3.01
3.76 tix - 1 Glissa, the Traitor
$3.35
0.02 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 1 Murderous Cut
$0.32
0.03 tix
- 2 Nature's Claim
$0.44
0.01 tix
- 2 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.61 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 2 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 tix
- 1 Trygon Predator
$0.14
0.02 tix
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Sorceries (16)
- 1 Demonic Tutor
$58.78
5.92 tix
- 1 Merchant Scroll
$4.52
2.46 tix
- 1 Time Walk
$498.49
6.15 tix
- 1 Yawgmoth's Will
$44.00
1.90 tix
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
$0.24
0.02 tix
- 1 Wheel of Fortune
$199.99
0.33 tix
- 1 Timetwister
$780.68
8.08 tix
- 1 Tinker
$1.02
2.69 tix
- 1 Windfall
$4.77
0.29 tix
- 1 Mind's Desire
$1.02
0.02 tix
- 1 Ponder
$1.81
0.01 tix
- 1 Preordain
$0.51
0.01 tix
- 4 Gitaxian Probe
$3.57
0.01 tix
Instants (12)
Artifacts (23)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
54.65 tix - 2 Chrome Mox
$38.87
1.82 tix
- 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
$819.15
8.91 tix
- 1 Lotus Petal
$36.20
16.38 tix
- 1 Mana Crypt
$40.22
1.70 tix
- 1 Mox Emerald
$601.99
14.55 tix
- 1 Mox Jet
$674.99
23.97 tix
- 4 Mox Opal
$234.22
16.14 tix
- 1 Mox Pearl
$535.99
14.97 tix
- 1 Mox Ruby
$445.26
12.04 tix
- 1 Mox Sapphire
$544.49
31.81 tix
- 1 Mana Vault
$86.50
2.60 tix
- 1 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.61
1.06 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$0.96
0.02 tix
- 2 Defense Grid
$6.54
0.02 tix
- 2 Grim Monolith
$29.99
9.15 tix
- 1 Memory Jar
$36.82
0.36 tix
Lands (9)
Sideboard
- 1 Blightsteel Colossus
$34.50
0.02 tix - 1 Chain of Vapor
$9.47
0.07 tix
- 1 Defense Grid
$6.54
0.02 tix
- 1 Empty the Warrens
$0.15
0.02 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 2 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.64
1.54 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 2 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 tix
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Sorceries (17)
- 1 Demonic Tutor
$58.78
5.92 tix
- 1 Merchant Scroll
$4.52
2.46 tix
- 1 Yawgmoth's Will
$44.00
1.90 tix
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
$0.24
0.02 tix
- 1 Wheel of Fortune
$199.99
0.33 tix
- 1 Timetwister
$780.68
8.08 tix
- 4 Thoughtcast
$1.09
0.36 tix
- 1 Mind's Desire
$1.02
0.02 tix
- 1 Treasure Cruise
$0.25
0.01 tix - 1 Ponder
$1.81
0.01 tix
- 4 Gitaxian Probe
$3.57
0.01 tix
Instants (8)
Artifacts (22)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
54.65 tix
- 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
$819.15
8.91 tix
- 1 Lotus Petal
$36.20
16.38 tix
- 1 Mana Crypt
$40.22
1.70 tix
- 1 Mox Emerald
$601.99
14.55 tix
- 1 Mox Jet
$674.99
23.97 tix
- 4 Mox Opal
$234.22
16.14 tix
- 1 Mox Pearl
$535.99
14.97 tix
- 1 Mox Ruby
$445.26
12.04 tix
- 1 Mox Sapphire
$544.49
31.81 tix
- 1 Mana Vault
$86.50
2.60 tix
- 1 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.61
1.06 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$0.96
0.02 tix
- 2 Voltaic Key
$1.00
0.03 tix
- 2 Defense Grid
$6.54
0.02 tix
- 1 Grim Monolith
$29.99
9.15 tix
- 1 Time Vault
$189.00
0.80 tix
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (12)
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (9)
Enchantments (8)
Lands (18)
- 3 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 3 Forbidden Orchard$9.43 0.02 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Library of Alexandria$1675.25 0.12 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 2 Tropical Island$312.50 9.52 tix
- 2 Tundra$278.32 12.73 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.87 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Arcane Laboratory
$0.56
0.04 tix
- 1 Engineered Plague
$7.77
8.63 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 1 Nature's Claim
$0.44
0.01 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.61 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Sudden Shock
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
- 3 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 1 Tsabo's Web
$4.32
20.28 tix
1
Final: 1 |
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 1 Balance
$1.10
0.14 tix
- 2 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 1 Disenchant
$0.10
0.03 tix
- 2 Fragmentize
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 1 Path to Exile
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.22 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Sorceries (16)
- 1 Demonic Tutor
$58.78
5.92 tix
- 1 Merchant Scroll
$4.52
2.46 tix
- 1 Time Walk
$498.49
6.15 tix
- 1 Yawgmoth's Will
$44.00
1.90 tix
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
$0.24
0.02 tix
- 1 Wheel of Fortune
$199.99
0.33 tix
- 1 Timetwister
$780.68
8.08 tix
- 1 Tinker
$1.02
2.69 tix
- 1 Windfall
$4.77
0.29 tix
- 1 Mind's Desire
$1.02
0.02 tix
- 1 Ponder
$1.81
0.01 tix
- 1 Preordain
$0.51
0.01 tix
- 4 Gitaxian Probe
$3.57
0.01 tix
Instants (11)
Artifacts (24)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
54.65 tix
- 3 Chrome Mox
$38.87
1.82 tix
- 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
$819.15
8.91 tix
- 1 Lotus Petal
$36.20
16.38 tix
- 1 Mana Crypt
$40.22
1.70 tix
- 1 Mox Emerald
$601.99
14.55 tix
- 1 Mox Jet
$674.99
23.97 tix
- 4 Mox Opal
$234.22
16.14 tix
- 1 Mox Pearl
$535.99
14.97 tix
- 1 Mox Ruby
$445.26
12.04 tix
- 1 Mox Sapphire
$544.49
31.81 tix
- 1 Mana Vault
$86.50
2.60 tix
- 1 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.61
1.06 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$0.96
0.02 tix
- 2 Defense Grid
$6.54
0.02 tix
- 2 Grim Monolith
$29.99
9.15 tix
- 1 Memory Jar
$36.82
0.36 tix
Lands (9)
Sideboard
- 1 Blightsteel Colossus
$34.50
0.02 tix
- 2 Chain of Vapor
$9.47
0.07 tix
- 1 Defense Grid
$6.54
0.02 tix
- 1 Empty the Warrens
$0.15
0.02 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 2 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.64
1.54 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 3 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 tix
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (20)
Artifacts (5)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Sorceries (17)
- 1 Demonic Tutor
$58.78
5.92 tix
- 1 Merchant Scroll
$4.52
2.46 tix
- 1 Yawgmoth's Will
$44.00
1.90 tix
- 1 Tendrils of Agony
$0.24
0.02 tix
- 1 Wheel of Fortune
$199.99
0.33 tix
- 1 Timetwister
$780.68
8.08 tix
- 4 Thoughtcast
$1.09
0.36 tix
- 1 Mind's Desire
$1.02
0.02 tix
- 1 Treasure Cruise
$0.25
0.01 tix
- 1 Ponder
$1.81
0.01 tix
- 4 Gitaxian Probe
$3.57
0.01 tix
Instants (8)
Artifacts (22)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
54.65 tix
- 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
$819.15
8.91 tix
- 1 Lotus Petal
$36.20
16.38 tix
- 1 Mana Crypt
$40.22
1.70 tix
- 1 Mox Emerald
$601.99
14.55 tix
- 1 Mox Jet
$674.99
23.97 tix
- 4 Mox Opal
$234.22
16.14 tix
- 1 Mox Pearl
$535.99
14.97 tix
- 1 Mox Ruby
$445.26
12.04 tix
- 1 Mox Sapphire
$544.49
31.81 tix
- 1 Mana Vault
$86.50
2.60 tix
- 1 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.61
1.06 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$0.96
0.02 tix
- 2 Voltaic Key
$1.00
0.03 tix
- 1 Defense Grid
$6.54
0.02 tix
- 1 Defense Grid
$6.54
0.02 tix
- 1 Grim Monolith
$29.99
9.15 tix
- 1 Time Vault
$189.00
0.80 tix
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (12)
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 2 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 2 Fragmentize
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Izzet Staticaster
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 2 Kataki, War's Wage
$0.88
0.02 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.22 tix
- 1 Sudden Shock
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (8)
Enchantments (8)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 1 Nature's Claim
$0.44
0.01 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.61 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Sudden Shock
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
- 3 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (20)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 |
