Recent content by Erik Twice

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...

Yeah, for me the issue is that they are just second copies of Tireless Tracker but worse. Same cost, similar role and slots in the same spot. If you have to choose, the right answer is Tireless Provisioner but I would take anything else. Interestingly, the card that has boosted green-based...

I can't draft enough lands in this cube to save my life RIP

For cube: Replenish Squandered Resources Library of Alexandria I like the small ones the best. They would be busted in constructed, but they would be a lot of fun in cube.

Liliana the Faultless looks like a great cube card. Warden of Souls is too narrow on its own, but stapling the effect to removal protection and making it into a discard outlet is truly appealing. Now, I think the activation cost, not just in cards, but in mana, puts a damper on it. But I like...

Ah, it's nothing. It's just that flavour text has gotten more and more jokey and one-liner-ish over the years but Battle of Wits was downgraded to "There's no loftier ambition than the pursuit of knowledge" which has no charm.