Intrepid Paleontologist must be under your control in order to start casting a Dinosaur creature spell using its last ability, but it doesn't need to stay under your control throughout that process or be under your control as the spell resolves
So if you think youre going to have lots of 90% matchups, Shock Lock can be a fantastic metagame choice, but if you expect many 10% matchups youre better off playing a different deck instead of trying to tech Shock Lock to beat your worst matchups
Metamorph still ends up copies creatures the vast majority of the time with their being fewer high powered artifacts
We've looked at Stormchaser's Talent, but here are a bunch of other key cards from this deck and how their prices have adjusted over the past week to the archetype's sudden, explosive success: Accumulate Wisdom: $0.50 to $4.15 Artist's Talent: $8 to $35 Monument to Endurance: $8.70 to $24 Riverpyre Verge: $12 to $25 Boomerang Basics: $0.70 to $3.80 That's a lot of price spikes
Its no Lapse of Certainty, but its cheaper and it cantrips, which aint nothing
I absolutely love Damnation and Gustave Dore so this alter hits me in all the right ways