Recent content by Erik Twice

Springleaf Drum vs Paradise Mantle Thoughts?

Extremely poor. You can easily spare one mana. It's impossible to spare 2 mana on top of other costs.

Intuition vs Gifts Ungiven

I think lands is a varied archetype, you can focus on quite different things with it: - Putting lands into play - Discarding lands for effect - Getting specific lands into play - Sacrificing lands - Playing lands from the graveyard - Ramping - Aggro lands - Midrange - Etc. I would start by...

The main ones are spell-slinger decks, where you get several rewards from a single card (Haste, extra power, spell trigger, second hit later) and aggro graveyard decks where getting free cards is huge.

Earthcraft Cryptolith Rite You can power down the effect and use Cryptolith Rite, but there's no need to, Earthcraft is already limited enough. Chord of Calling Fantastic, widely useful card. It's a tutor, it's instant-speed, not too expensive and allows decks to have more variety by...

Crop Rotation is not a bad choice if you can justify it on its own terms. I absolutely recommend both Dreadhorde Arcanist (fun, unique, great in both draft and play) and Reckless Charge (Not the most powerful card, but does not suffer from 24th card syndrome and is strong in the right places)

For me the problem is not the speed. 1 mana is the perfect cost for Stifle. I just don't want it to blow up lands for a mere 1 mana.

I would love a non-land Stifle. I love the card, it's a great, simple design that has a ton of gameplay value...but the fact that it acts as a 1-mana Strip Mine with fetchlands just ruins it for me. Were it not for that, I would cube it. Note that it wrecks Storm, though.

Yep. For me the biggest problem is that all those big RW cards just amounted to nothing. Like sure, you filled the graveyard, you generated recursive card advantage...and then...what? There was nothing that could really use it. You are probably right about STX/Midnight Hunt, by the way, given...

Personally: Grim Monolith Grim Monolith is great. It is a very powerful card, one of the best in my cube, but it has certain restrictions that make it good only in some decks. Notably, it only gives colorless mana so it has fewer uses and there are not a lot of big snowbally cards, like...

Yep, highly recommended. I also feel the colour restriction isn't huge while, at the same time, preventing dumb splashes into other colours. My Boros section only has two real Boros cards: Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury Showdown of the Scalds I've also slotted this guy in Boros for counting...

I did! It's a great design, I only cut it because it wasn't an effect I sought. It's also great with Earthcraft, mana dorks or go-wide strategies in general. If you want a "white fireball" or "go wide X spell", I would give it a try.

I love Windbrisk Heights because you can use it, alongside Collector's Cage or other versatile cheat spells like Reanimate, to add a bit of spice to wide decks. Decks, particularly wide creature-based ones, tend to focus very heavily on cheap spells, heavily limiting how they can be built and...

Pernicious Deed will prove too mana intensive for Nanonox, I had to cut it for that reason. It's also narrow because it often destroys valuable cards on your side (Say, Crucible of Words, Sylvan Library, etc.) and exploiting it with higher mana values is now rarer. I much prefer Engineered...