Honestly, I love innocious looking badass cards like Tanglewire and Smokestack. They'll never wreck a whole draft (and by that I mean the games), but they sure can tear up a game or two. I'm totally fine with that!
I was being honest though, I do love Tanglewire. It always gets undervalued by newer players too, which I find interesting in a card. And unlike infect it's not poisonous, which is a huge boon! I get that losing to it because you are just locked out of the game can feel lame however, in the same way that losing to counterspells or land destruction can. Sometimes you just don't get to play a game of Magic, but at least the sequencing of what to tap when a wire hits the table is interesting.
As someone who runs both Thrummingbird and Carnivorous Death-Parrot, both of which see reasonable amounts of play in their particular niches, a combo of the two would be too powerful for me, but perhaps appropriate in a high power environment as one of those cards that is good by itself, but crazy good with synergy.
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Sure! Aggro, artifact removal, instants and flash. There's also not that many ways to keep it rolling, it just happened to come together perfectly for once that time
the only other ways to keep it running are Brago, the Tamiyo emblem and Contagion Clasp. Two of those are more expensive than the wire, and blue is usually not the color that can take advantage of the soft lock.
