We said that two-for-ones are at their best when you have time to set up and realize their card advantage. Eternal Witness from Fifth Dawn for . Cookies help us deliver our Services. In certain decks (looking at you, Tuvasa the Sunlit) the only cards you’ll generally want back from the yard are creatures and enchantments, and Reviving Melody would let you swap the 2/1 body for an additional card to hand. Meren of Clan Nel Toth - (G) (SF) (MC) (ER)Viscera Seer - (G) (SF) (MC) (ER)Skullwinder - (G) (SF) (MC) (ER)Mindslaver - (G) (SF) (MC) (ER)[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call. Leave a comment below if you’ve got any other possible Eternal Witness replacements, or any suggestions for future column subjects, or just leave a compliment about how my podcasting voice evokes the honey-rich tones of a young James Earl Jones. Twitter. Just so you're aware, you do not need to declare your choice of player until after it's been allowed to resolve. .c_dVyWK3BXRxSN3ULLJ_t{border-radius:4px 4px 0 0;height:34px;left:0;position:absolute;right:0;top:0}._1OQL3FCA9BfgI57ghHHgV3{-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-ms-flex-pack:start;justify-content:flex-start;margin-top:32px}._1OQL3FCA9BfgI57ghHHgV3 ._33jgwegeMTJ-FJaaHMeOjV{border-radius:9001px;height:32px;width:32px}._1OQL3FCA9BfgI57ghHHgV3 ._1wQQNkVR4qNpQCzA19X4B6{height:16px;margin-left:8px;width:200px}._39IvqNe6cqNVXcMFxFWFxx{display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;margin:12px 0}._39IvqNe6cqNVXcMFxFWFxx ._29TSdL_ZMpyzfQ_bfdcBSc{-ms-flex:1;flex:1}._39IvqNe6cqNVXcMFxFWFxx .JEV9fXVlt_7DgH-zLepBH{height:18px;width:50px}._39IvqNe6cqNVXcMFxFWFxx ._3YCOmnWpGeRBW_Psd5WMPR{height:12px;margin-top:4px;width:60px}._2iO5zt81CSiYhWRF9WylyN{height:18px;margin-bottom:4px}._2iO5zt81CSiYhWRF9WylyN._2E9u5XvlGwlpnzki78vasG{width:230px}._2iO5zt81CSiYhWRF9WylyN.fDElwzn43eJToKzSCkejE{width:100%}._2iO5zt81CSiYhWRF9WylyN._2kNB7LAYYqYdyS85f8pqfi{width:250px}._2iO5zt81CSiYhWRF9WylyN._1XmngqAPKZO_1lDBwcQrR7{width:120px}._3XbVvl-zJDbcDeEdSgxV4_{border-radius:4px;height:32px;margin-top:16px;width:100%}._2hgXdc8jVQaXYAXvnqEyED{animation:_3XkHjK4wMgxtjzC1TvoXrb 1.5s ease infinite;background:linear-gradient(90deg,var(--newCommunityTheme-field),var(--newCommunityTheme-inactive),var(--newCommunityTheme-field));background-size:200%}._1KWSZXqSM_BLhBzkPyJFGR{background-color:var(--newCommunityTheme-widgetColors-sidebarWidgetBackgroundColor);border-radius:4px;padding:12px;position:relative;width:auto} Cookies help us deliver our Services. If the opponent doesn't have an artifact, Tin Street Hooligan will really just be a Goblin Bully. So we all know [[Eternal Witness]], right? Most of them are just about returning creatures though. You’re playing with what is effectively a 100-card deck, and you can only have one of any card within it. (Commander 2015 and Commander Anthology). The overwhelming majority of the time, the card you’ll need to get back will be an enchantment or a creature, so why not get both? Jump to. The choice is a part of the resolution and is not a target. Everyone's favourite [[Regrowth]] ETB effect creature. When activating both white and red kickers, Thornscape Battlemage can earn three-for-one or more... but "just" killing a creature two-for-one was its most common role. The chances of drawing the exact card you want in Commander are very low. Cookies help us deliver our Services. Back in September, I did a podcast called "Casual Magic with Shivam Bhat... © 1993-2020 Wizards of the Coast LLC, a subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc. All Rights Reserved. You might not be able to play Flametongue Kavu at all. At the end of the exchange, you will have a Tarmogoyf and a mystery card; whereas the opponent will have spent—really, misspent—the Cryptic Command, leaving him or her with no cards in hand. Sol Ring is a one-mana artifact that taps for two mana. At face value, the double Squires should survive combat. He also smells like cotton candy and sunsets. It’s a three-mana enchantment that reads: “Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays one mana.” The way this normally works is that for the first few turns, everyone will do their social duty of paying the one mana. .s5ap8yh1b4ZfwxvHizW3f{color:var(--newCommunityTheme-metaText);padding-top:5px}.s5ap8yh1b4ZfwxvHizW3f._19JhaP1slDQqu2XgT3vVS0{color:#ea0027} ._33axOHPa8DzNnTmwzen-wO{font-size:14px;font-weight:700;letter-spacing:.5px;line-height:32px;text-transform:uppercase;display:block;padding:0 16px;width:100%} Until next time, I’m Dana and I’ll see you In the Margins. Here, Devour Flesh will trade one-for-one with the Invisible Stalker only because the Rancor will return to its owners hand. As we said in the very first sentence of this article, (self-contained) two-for-ones are relatively common. Commander, or EDH, is one of the most popular MTG formats of all time. That means in a four-player game, you’ll likely have at least three extra mana to hand the turn after you play this. I had I believe it was called regrowth (it cost 1g). Plus, a sale! Additionally, without the ability to take advantage of those strategies, you may possibly be enabling someone else to abuse Ewit; Mimic Vat sees play in 11,214 decks and Sepulchral Primordial shows up in 9,966 decks, so someone else is more than capable of stealing your dead Ewit and reaping the benefits. It’s a lot, an absurd amount. Cast Summoning Trap for free 3. Archive Yet despite this synergy, it only shows up in 557 decks total, literally 0.01% of the decks as Ewit. Avoid the player with [[Craterhoof Behemoth]] in their graveyard and play some fun politics! There’re only so many cards with heavy EDH play that feature a handful of strictly better options, and I’ve run though a lot of them. It is a trivial matter to read card text and determine if a card might be a two-for-one... then check out its casting cost to decide if you want to play it regardless. Eternal Witness. Consider... Once in a while, Remand can even play two-for-one! Obviously this is more well-known than I understood. After that: Time Warp, copy with Riku, copy with Chandra's -2, then use Noxious Revival to put Time Warp on top of his library. When you pick the right two-for-ones? Compared to Ewit, that’s a difference of roughly 45,000 decks. Still, in a deck with no ways to abuse Ewit’s body, Naya Charm gives you the option to bolt a creature or tap all creatures for an alpha strike. Want to see how many of the 30 questions you can answer correctl... Today, I'm going to talk about how R&D designs for casual play. That’s really what this article is about: cards that have an upside better than a 2/1 blocker in decks where a 2/1 blocker is the only upside Ewit provides. Allow us to upgrade the perfect turn one play for you: play a land, tap the land, play Sol Ring, tap Sol Ring, play Arcane Signet, play a one-mana spell of your choosing. In doing so, we see that two of the five have zero sacrifice outlets and zero ways to recur a creature.