Brain Freeze
Brain Freeze: Instant, Mystery Booster 2. Target player mills three cards. Storm. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{U}
- Mana value
- 2
- Type
- Instant
- Colour identity
- Blue (U)
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Set
- Mystery Booster 2 (MB2)
- Released
- 2024-08-02
- Collector number
- 24
- Artist
- Tim Hildebrandt
- Commander rank
- 784 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Storm, Mill
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About Brain Freeze
Brain Freeze is a Magic: The Gathering card, an uncommon blue instant from Mystery Booster 2 (MB2), a Masters set released in August 2024. It is collector number 24 in that set, with art by Tim Hildebrandt. It costs {1}{U} (one generic and one blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. Its colour identity is blue. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Premodern, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, PreDH, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 7 sets, from Scourge (2003) to Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive (2026). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $2.70 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
Target player mills three cards.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $2.70 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Brain Freeze by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Premodern | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| PreDH | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Brain Freeze
Brain Freeze has been printed in 7 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive (SOA) #13 | Rare | 2026 |
| Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive (SOA) #143 | Rare | 2026 |
| Secrets of Strixhaven Mystical Archive (SOA) #78 | Rare | 2026 |
| Secret Lair Countdown (SLC) #2 | Rare | 2025 |
| Secret Lair Countdown (SLC) #29 | Rare | 2025 |
| Secret Lair Drop (SLD) #410 | Rare | 2022 |
| The List (PLST) #SCG-29 | Uncommon | 2020 |
| Vintage Masters (VMA) #57 | Uncommon | 2014 |
| Scourge (SCG) #29 | Uncommon | 2003 |
Official rulings
Five official rulings apply to Brain Freeze, newest first.
- A copy of a spell can be countered like any other spell, but it must be countered individually. Countering a spell with storm won't affect the copies.
- The triggered ability that creates the copies can itself be countered by anything that can counter a triggered ability. If it is countered, no copies will be put onto the stack.
- Spells cast from zones other than a player's hand and spells that were countered are counted by the storm ability.
- You may choose new targets for any of the copies. You can make different choices for each copy.
- The copies are put directly onto the stack. They aren't cast and won't be counted by other spells with storm cast later in the turn.
Similar cards
Other instant cards with a blue colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
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