"The Storm Scale" was a concept coined by Magic lead designer Mark Rosewater as a scale of how likely Wizards of the Coast was to reprint certain mechanics, with Storm being the far end of the scale as something that would never see print again.

Then they go and print this guy in Bloomburrow...

...and it's on!

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03:35 - Match 1

13:34 - Match 2

18:08 - Match 3

27:54 - Match 4

31:56 - Match 5

Otterstorm | BLB Standard | Jim Davis

• Creatures (4)
• 4 Stormsplitter

• Instants (8)
• 2 Cut Down
• 2 Twinferno
• 4 Reenact the Crime

• Sorceries (10)
• 3 Duress
• 3 Insatiable Avarice
• 4 Beseech the Mirror

• Enchantments (3)
• 3 Brotherhood's End

• Artifacts (11)
• 3 Treasure Map
• 4 Collector's Vault
• 4 Tithing Blade

• Lands (24)
• 6 Swamp
• 2 Mountain
• 4 Blackcleave Cliffs
• 4 Bloodfell Caves
• 4 Raucous Theater
• 4 Sulfurous Springs

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This is my version of a deck originally played against me by Jason Ye, that I knew I had to take a shot at.

You will need a few random artifacts in play to bargain, but once you've got a Stormsplitter in play, a bargained Beseech the Mirror (two otters) can go get a Reenact the Crime (four otters), which can recast the Beseech the Mirror (eight otters, and at this point you can just use Stormsplitter tokens for the bargain), to go get Reenact the Crime (sixteen otters), etc. The end result is hundreds of hasty 1/4 Stormsplitters ready to attack for lethal!

Of course, actually having a Stormsplitter in play for a turn cycle and untapping with it isn't always going to be easy, but you can shortcut this part of the combo by casting Twinferno before your first Beseech the Mirror. The first Beseech the Mirror gets Stormsplitter, and the copy starts the combo. This means you can go off from nothing but an artifact or two in play for six mana, which is an explosively powerful thing to do in Standard.

Throw in some removal and interaction to both keep you alive as well as defend the combo, as well as Insaitable Avarice to tutor up pieces, draw cards, or both, and you've got a surprisingly fast combo deck in a format not really known for combo decks.

If this is what week zero of Bloomburrow Standard looks like, sign me up for more!