u/PlacatedPlatypus

Now that we're almost a week into the format, though the higher rarities are still pretty volatile, we have pretty good data on the commons. And from this data, we can see that Twinned Vision -- a card that most set reviewers pegged as solidly mediocre -- is actually doing extremely well. Its pick rate is respectably high, and its GIH winrate is up there with the very best commons.

This card at first glance doesn't look that good but I think that the format really skews towards it. Games are slow and bombs are strong (as is removal), so being able to have this much cycle and filtering on a single card is quite nice. Also, the flexibility of being able to leave an instant in your grave that you can cash in for extra filtering just feels great in this format, especially given all the surveilling you do.

Also, this card lends itself particularly well to many archetypes besides the intended UR (and can fit in them, being hybrid). UB is the obvious "off-color" home for it, since the deck mills itself frequently and likes to play at instant speed. Being able to mill into this spell and then hold up interaction mana while always having this option in the grave feels fantastic. UW and RG may seem like less obvious homes, but UW does a good amount of surveilling to bin this card, and RG as a deck lacks good card filtering so this can fill a great niche in the deck as a powerful mono-R draw effect at common.

I think this card should be picked as a premium source of card draw if you're in UB, and considered for UW and RG as well if you're lacking draw.

What are your thoughts on this card? Just a quirk of early meta and data? Or another overlooked card filtering common like Pursue the Past that ends up possibly being even more highly pickable due to the color flexibility?

I play Ornn, Vlad, and Kayle. I used to play K'Sante before they overhauled his scaling and made him a lane bully that falls off as well. I heard that Zaahen was a lategame monster so I decided to make a one-trick account for him, and this is the result. I haven't actually played ranked in a few seasons so I was surprised how easily I was able to hit masters.

Champ overall is quite difficult especially at higher elo because the laning phase is just awful. My losses are really ugly, if I get behind early I just never get back at this rank. But in games where I can stabilize, farm up, and maybe pick up a couple kills midgame, I just become a teamfight nightmare. Fun champ, hopefully Riot doesn't decide to turn him into a lane bully for no reason like they did to K'Sante.

Had this sick double Ardyn draft, but I'm not sure what I want to be cutting. Nouliths, UFO, and Ring seem obvious, but the ramp is nice for Ardyn and the Nouliths give me extra material for Vayne's Treachery. Also have synergy with Golbez (not that this really matters lol).

Cards basically performed as expected. The counter synergy snowballed surprisingly fast. Once your creatures pass 4 toughness they start being very hard to remove, and when they're mostly 2- and 3-drops the opponent is basically always down mana. None of my games were close, everyone got rolled by this deck.