
Ok I'm digressing, however, my point is the recent rules have changed alot of the game we older players experienced, and unless we are playing others who don't follow the new rules we need to learn them. Anyway Brand has become worthless, as the new rules state tokens are owned by the person who controls them when they come into play.(lost a really fun deck because of that one) Remember the Urza saga card Brand-take control of everything you own-people use to play it with the war riders, infernal genesis, ravinca's hunted creatures, since the rules then were tokens are owned by the person who controls the source of there creation. I dont know how aware you are of these rules change so forgive me if i sound condescending, Wizards decide to rewrite some rules to make the game easier for beginners to understand and play, for example, there's new words for old stuff, a new game zone, combat damage doesn't stack anymore(no more mogg fanatic shenagins), mana burn-a thing of the past. the problem is that under the current rules paradigm shift does not target and is not a legal target for a redirection spell because of it. The problem is not the card your using to divert, swerve, mis(re)direct, rebound, etc. Ok rebound wont work then i found a card that will win in 7 turns deflection Its a shame they dont work, both this and ghostfires, were sweet combos and would have dominated alot of games when they could be played. check out ghostfire's thread, the current rules are there and this combo does not work under the curent rules of Magic. Rules change, and yes it did work at one time, the rules have changed since then, now they even specify that the word "you" does not mean your a "target". Just because you have been playing for years doesn't mean its right. Im 35 been playing for 15 years and the word you and yours makes you the target of a spell Take a look at Ghostfire's thread with mana severance and divert, the rulings on why this would not work are posted there. Sorry but if it worked before it was before rules changed or you were playing it incorrectly. Like mana severance, Paradigm shift does not utilize the word "target" so it does not target and therefore can not be changed by rebound.

If thats the case a counterspell is a worthless card then being it reads counter target spell I had the same problem with a combo of mine with mana severance and divert. But given a Hive Mind it might be do able. THEN PLAY REBOUND,COST 1 BLUE 1 COLORLESS, TARGET SPELL ,WHICH TARGETS ONLY A SINGLE PLAYER,TARGETS ANOTHER PLAYER OF YOUR CHOICE INSTEAD.(YOUR OPPONENT)ON THERE NEXT TURN THEY HAVE NO CARD TO DRAW YOU WIN TAKES FOUR LANDS.

TORMOD'S CRYPT COST 0 TO PLAY ARTIFACT TAP SACRIFICE TORMOD'S CRYPT REMOVE ALL CARDS IN TARGET PLAYERS GRAVEYARD FROM GAME(YOUR OPPONENT) THEN PLAY PARADIGM SHIFT,COST 1 BLUE 1 COLORLESS, REMOVE ALL CARDS IN YOUR LIBRARY FROM GAME.SHUFFLE YOUR GRAVEYARD INTO YOUR LIBRARY.
