Recent content by Erik Twice

I've drafted your cube a bit and have some thoughts: I constantly feel there are too many spells and not enough creatures. This is worsened by the fact that many of these cards are narrow: Graveyard and enchantment hate, build-arounds, 1 mana creatures with little payoff, aggro-only creatures...

"Empower Jace 2" must be the single ugliest text I've ever seen in a trading card game. And all for what? Drawing cards? Do you need to create a token with counters just to draw a couple cards? I'm sure it plays well, it's just disgustingly ugly. I have no interest in licking a bad fanfiction...

I didn't notice that Haliya works with creatures that make a token, that makes it more playable. -- As for the green sacrifice...I think you are right and it's an angle that could work and be fun. However, for me the issue is that you are often drawn to black or simply don't need the sacrifice...

Yes, input "Voucher" as the card name and you'll be able to choose which cards you get with it. I saw an Urzatron voucher and tried it, it's easy!

Warp is great. I actually went and look into every card with the mechanic to see what fit. And it's funny because I also kind of want to try Starfield Vocalist but the art puts me off. Quantum Riddler is good-stuffy, but it doesn't bother me much because it's only truly good in certain decks...

I imagine you are talking about Badgermole Cub. I didn't think about this interaction and it does feel kind of bullshit. That said, I think all these MDFCs are fantastic cards and I would run them if you don't mind the hassle. Both Pinnacle Monk and Disciple of Freyalise have very interesting...

It was me! Like you, I wasn't feeling the package for a while but then I felt my stocks in it go up again. The key for me is that it has become a little easier to trigger Collector's Cage. While most of the time it just requires three creatures, there were a bunch of edge cases where your...

Devastating Dreams is one of those cards that oscillate in and out of my favour. It promotes a deck I call "low cost Wildfire" that tops at 2-3 mana and uses Balance, Cataclysm and the like to control the game. It's fun and unique. Personally, I think the most frustrating part of the card is...

This feels the same as learning that One with Nothing saw competitive play.

My cube, like many, has very small creatures because you play them for the effect rather than their stats. However, that makes bigger creatures more fun. My favourites are cheap, simple creatures that can grow very tall. Champion of the Parish Moonshadow Super Shredder Ivora, Insatiable Heir...

It depends on your reanimation suite. If you run 1-2 mana spells like Reanimate or Animate Dead, then no. If you run 3-4 mana spells like Necromancy or Royal Retainers, then yes.

Dust Elemental is one of the coolest creatures ever, but I'm not where it would actually work. Appa is the more playable version but it has like...minus a million coolness points. Academy Rector is cool, but it suffers from lack of redundancy, difficulty of sacrificing it and that you may not...

In my experience, aggro artifact decks don't always have that much of a density. A typical deck ften has 11-13 cards with the actual type and most of them aren't meant to go to the graveyard. Equipment, ramp and support artifacts don't get killed much. Some artifact decks don't even have much in...

This is my weekly reminder that Tchotchke Elemental is one of the best cards to support both between tokens and +1/+1 counters. Tchotchke Elemental It's fair, but powerful and the puzzle of it not having trample is great. I'll eventually make a proxy with no "funny" text. I might even have it...

I used to run it, it's hard for me to evaluate it. First, no other card will clog the board as hard as this one does. It's symmetrical so it can make it impossible for either player to turn their creatures sideways. Second, it's best as a combo piece not a value engine. However, it's one of...