For there to be a real reason to run Green over Red?
I mean, it doesn't have to be an extra copy of Deathrite, per se. But I did like that Deathrite gave a reason to be in Green, helped curtain the power of Snapcaster, and was incidental maindeckable grave-hate. Anything that can tap for G/B and is better than BoP (that is, not such a terrible later top deck) would be a nice thing to me, it would also be nice if helped with those other things too though.
"The Ancients teach us that if we can but last, we shall prevail."
—Kaysa, Elder Druid of the Juniper Order
The problem is, twister is not a good card. Legendary status, but not good.
Storm, Dredge, Ninjitsu are all back, but where is Grandeur, Aura Swap, and Bushido!?
Sure, but it's still putting 3 Time Twisters into your "hand" in order to out threat permission, turn 1 Quiet Speculation into turn 2 Twister, turn 3 Twister, turn 4 Twister is going to exceed any deck's counters.
Does this card shuffle itself back into your deck when it resolves, or does it resolve and then put itself into your graveyard? At worst this is an upgrade over Diminishing Returns for Burning Wish, you don't have to maintain priority and sacrifice LED to cast it over sacrificing LED after you've resolved Burning Wish; you get to play LED and then Jedi Mind Trick them into not countering the Burnish Wish so that you can grab Empty the Warrens.
I agree that every spell Burn casts should be dealing damage, but this could be useful grindy matches. For a while I tried the RedDeckWinning tech of a one-of Molten Vortex in the SB - as an alternative to Lavamancer in a budget no-fetches list - and it performed decently. I can see this serving a similar purpose, even if it only has a home in budget lists.
But I always itch to experiment new cards and it could very well be that my brewer instinct is making me overly optimistic.
So I'm not remotely a combo player, but just looking at the design of Flashback Timetwister, I'm thinking:
4x LED
4x Petal
4x SSG
4x ESG
4x Dark Ritual
4x Rite of Flame
4x Manamorphose
4x Cabal Ritual
4x Entomb
4x Quiet Speculation
4x Deep Analysis
4x Flashback Twister
4x Tendrils of Agony
4x Goblin Charbelcher
2x Land Grant
1x Bayou
1x Taiga
That seems like it wins on turn 1 a lot of the time, but I could be wildly off there. Like I said, not my personal type of deck, but it's a ridiculously easy concept to figure out, especially given the interactions with LED and Petal.
I mean, Entomb+Spec gives you an incredibly good shot at always getting a copy, and those two tutors reset themselves on every cycle, so you go 12x chances to find it, to 11x chances to find it, .. pretty good odds in other words.
I just threw a what-if storm list together with not-Time Twister and I've gone off turn one 8 times in a row. I think there's a new belcher in town.
Which is fine, since a belcher that loses to graveyard hate is A-OK
Woah, I just got caught in a Timetwister to the future, but I'm back now.
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