Daily Card Redesign #119: Storm Crow

Daily Card Redesign is a daily Magic: The Gathering design exercise where I randomly choose a card for the scenario of it being killed late during its own set's development. I design a replacement card that uses the same art, is the same color, is the same rarity, and has a name that, alphabetically, keeps it within the same collector number for the set.

A staple of planeswalker Nathan Holt! Is it possible to be redesigned?

Redesign:

You don't mess with Storm Crow. Yet, Floodbringer, Tempest Owl, Screeching Silcaw, and Metropolis Sprite don't seem to get this message. So, since Storm Crow's stats are already so powerful, I had to juice it up in a slightly different and mild way.

I wanted to find an ability that rewards you for your dedication to Storm Crow. I also wanted you to feel like you were storming with crows. This design encourages it being correct to keep a two-or-more-Storm-Crow hand. It trades card resources from your hand for early pressure! Storm the skies!

This ability appearing on a two-drop makes it that much safer to put onto a creature. If it were on a 7/7, it wouldn't be as safe, since then players can manipulate their libraries/hands to ensure all four copies are in hand then just drop the bomb. In this case, the best play would be to cast a Brainstorm spell of some kind to help you set up your storming of crows for maximum potential on turn two.