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Any choices made when the spell resolves won't have been made yet when it's copied

Its trivial to get this down reasonably early in a green deck, and then the life and card draw just cashes in

I also didn't really want to go the old fashioned "theme deck" route, which led me tentatively into and out of Magic a few times over the past 25 years

Most sets have a draft common common or uncommon that can repeatedly inflict one damage on each opponent just by playing other cards, like Firebrand Archer or Erebor Flamesmith

Also, there are lots of X spells that create creatures at instant speed, like Call the Coppercoats, Decree of Justice, White Sun's Zenith, so you could set up an easy win in EDH by casting a big spell, attacking the next turn, and untapping to win

Psychosis Crawler is a pile of vanilla stats that scales up with your grip