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Brainstorm 
Instant
Brainstorm appeared in 2,918 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 | 1159 | 3.9 |
| Vintage | 47 | 1 | 692 | 1 |
| Duel Commander | 14 | 1 | 628 | 1 |
| Pauper | 48 | 3.5 | 439 | 3.6 |
Details
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Source Material
- Rarity
- Mythic Rare
- Mana value
- 1
- Collector #
- 4
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Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Brainstorm
4
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (21)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix - 3 Cabal Therapy
$6.60
11.99 tix - 1 Darkblast
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Fire Covenant
$0.43
0.16 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Sulfuric Vortex
$0.91
0.02 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix - 1 Umezawa's Jitte
$2.94
0.09 tix - 1 Winter Orb
$10.98
18.15 tix
6
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (17)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 Darkblast
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 2 Dead Weight
$0.05
0.03 tix
- 1 Duress
$0.08
0.01 tix
- 1 Golgari Charm
$0.89
0.03 tix - 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
$17.07
0.66 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 2 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
- 2 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix - 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 1 Winter Orb
$10.98
18.15 tix
5
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 Containment Priest
$0.29
0.10 tix - 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Izzet Staticaster
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Meddling Mage
$2.29
0.36 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 2 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.22 tix
- 1 Ruination
$0.65
4.54 tix - 1 Vendilion Clique
$3.53
0.02 tix
- 1 Venser, Shaper Savant
$0.37
0.02 tix
- 2 Wear/Tear
$1.29
4.72 tix
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (8)
Planeswalkers (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Arcane Laboratory
$0.56
0.04 tix
- 1 Dismember
$3.01
3.76 tix
- 4 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Izzet Staticaster
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 2 Nature's Claim
$0.44
0.01 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 tix
- 1 Trygon Predator
$0.14
0.02 tix
- 1 Yixlid Jailer
$0.09
0.04 tix
7
Final: 7 |
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 (23)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
54.65 tix
- 3 Chrome Mox
$38.87
1.82 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
- 2 Chain of Vapor
$9.47
0.07 tix
- 1 Defense Grid
$6.54
0.02 tix
- 1 Ensnaring Bridge
$5.90
4.70 tix
- 2 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.64
1.54 tix
- 2 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 2 Pyroclasm
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
14.45 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 1 Vandalblast
$1.02
0.03 tix
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (14)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (8)
Enchantments (1)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (14)
Sideboard
- 2 Arcane Laboratory
$0.56
0.04 tix
- 2 Disenchant
$0.10
0.03 tix
- 2 Energy Flux
$0.26
0.16 tix
- 1 Energy Flux
$0.26
0.16 tix
- 2 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.64
1.54 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 2 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.22 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (6)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
1
Final: 1 |
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (18)
- 1 Beast Within
$0.46
0.04 tix
- 1 Mindbreak Trap
$7.07
1.50 tix
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 3 Gush
$2.41
0.04 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.28
0.02 tix - 1 Vampiric Tutor
$51.00
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 Swan Song
$8.27
0.16 tix
- 3 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
Artifacts (8)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
- 3 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.03 tix
- 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Blazing Archon
$0.32
0.02 tix
- 1 Forbidden Orchard$9.43 0.02 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.64
1.54 tix
- 3 Nature's Claim
$0.44
0.01 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 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
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (17)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
54.65 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
- 2 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
- 3 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 Time Vault
$189.00
0.80 tix
Enchantments (3)
Lands (12)
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (22)
- 3 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 1 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 3 Gush
$2.41
0.04 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.81
0.02 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Mystical Tutor
$14.99
0.20 tix
- 4 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
- 4 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
Artifacts (6)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 |
Main Deck
Creatures (1)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (11)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
54.65 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
- 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 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.61
1.06 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$0.96
0.02 tix
- 1 Voltaic Key
$1.00
0.03 tix
- 1 Time Vault
$189.00
0.80 tix
Lands (15)
Sideboard
- 1 Ceremonious Rejection
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Ceremonious Rejection
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.64
1.54 tix
- 2 Ingot Chewer
$0.14
0.03 tix
- 1 Murderous Cut
$0.32
0.03 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 3 Ravenous Trap
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 3 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 tix
3
Final: 3 |
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (18)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
54.65 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
- 3 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
- 2 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.61
1.06 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$0.96
0.02 tix
- 1 Voltaic Key
$1.00
0.03 tix
- 1 Grim Monolith
$29.99
9.15 tix
- 1 Time Vault
$189.00
0.80 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
Lands (12)
Sideboard
7
Final: 7 |
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (2)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (5)
Enchantments (1)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrupt Decay
$0.90
0.03 tix
- 2 Baleful Strix
$0.94
0.31 tix
- 1 Dismember
$3.01
3.76 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 4 Grafdigger's Cage
$2.26
0.29 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$114.46
9.61 tix
- 1 Pithing Needle
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 2 Yixlid Jailer
$0.09
0.04 tix
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (14)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (15)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
54.65 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
- 2 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.61
1.06 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$0.96
0.02 tix
Lands (10)
Sideboard
4
Final: 4 |
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
- 1 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
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
20.92 tix
- 3 Tormod's Crypt
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 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 Empty the Warrens
$0.15
0.02 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
8
Final: 8 |
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (18)
- 1 Black Lotus
$3000.00
54.65 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
- 3 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
- 2 Sensei's Divining Top
$39.61
1.06 tix
- 1 Sol Ring
$0.96
0.02 tix
- 1 Voltaic Key
$1.00
0.03 tix
- 1 Grim Monolith
$29.99
9.15 tix
- 1 Time Vault
$189.00
0.80 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
Lands (12)
Sideboard
2
Final: 2 |
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (6)
Lands (16)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.43 2.22 tix
- 1 Library of Alexandria$1675.25 0.12 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Strip Mine$10.99 1.68 tix
- 3 Tundra$278.32 12.73 tix
- 2 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.87 tix
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 |
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (20)
- 4 Force of Will
$26.25
10.90 tix
- 1 Gush
$2.41
0.04 tix
- 1 Gush
$2.41
0.04 tix
- 1 Gush
$2.41
0.04 tix
- 1 Dig Through Time
$0.28
0.02 tix
- 2 Lightning Bolt
$0.81
0.02 tix
- 1 Ancestral Recall
$559.99
6.53 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 4 Mental Misstep
$8.10
0.02 tix
- 2 Swords to Plowshares
$1.15
0.04 tix
Artifacts (8)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
5
Final: 5 |
