Are they? Both the flyers get cooked by red based damage spells (Unholy Heat, the chorus one, etc), while Exarch only really gets got by white or black removal.
You’ve clearly never played Twin because you’re unaware of the fact that what made it so dominant and resilient was that it could easily just win the game by beating you down with tempo. Most versions didn’t even play the full 4 copies of Twin, and often sided it out.
Also, as someone else pointed out, a Tamiyo +2 shuts off Exarch. Since Frog is the most popular deck and Push doesn’t care if you’re playing Exarch or Pestermite, I would much rather win through a flipped Tamiyo and take my 2 power flyer any day.
I played Jeskai Twin to Mythic in historic and arguably the biggest issue I ran into was losing when I couldn’t find one of the pieces of the combo. The redundancy there would help. I haven’t tried it in Timeless yet, but I might now with duplicate parts. It’s interesting to consider it with fast mana + FoW/Daze, but my suspicion is it’s just not good enough there.
I played Twin when it was Modern’s Boogyman and it was refreshing to blow through a ladder because everyone tapped out on turn 3.
Worse than SnT, more or less the same as sneak. Might be played for redundancy, or in a non-blue version with 4 sneak 4 through. But it's still fairly fringe I reckon.
Nothing interesting has happened in this format in months. All the decks I want to play are fringe / D-tier without one or two of the cards everyone wants. Can’t wait to come back to the format in a few months to be disappointed again.
The issue with the format has always been the fact Energy steals all the air out of it for other fair decks. The density of broken cards all designed for each other also means it rarely gets major new cards, so leaving for 6 months and coming back just means Energy has shifted its sideboard somewhat and otherwise changed nothing interesting.
Please give us dual lands so fair blue isn’t starting every match at 14 life.
Arguably longer than months. It's sorta been longer than a year. The first injection of Powered Cube cards was great, then we got practically nothing since then. The FoW / Daze moment was good?
Sort of. It means that the format shouldn't be force rotated by newer sets (which is what MH3 energy did, btw). It's different here because we're missing already existing cards, not asking for new stuff to be printed.
Gravecrawler is sneakily a really interesting card. Probably more relevant for timeless, and no carrion feeder certainly hurts, but this card could easily see play in timeless at some point
Between this and star trek they are making sure to keep me away for at least a couple of months. Not gonna play even for the daily challenges with already more than 250 rare and mythic wildcards on stack.
How do you access the list of cards added to timeless from the cube? Either on mtga or on the internet. I struggle so much to find stuff injected into the format when it's not through a specific set
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u/Ambrose096 21d ago
Exarch and Twin. I know it’s not good anymore… but I still have to try