#desolation twin

[mtgtokens]

Masters 25 release tokens, part one of two.

[chaos-storm]

New favorite card

[the-burnished-hart]

Arbitrary Token of the Week: Eldrazi (BFZ)

This week’s arbitrary token is Jack Wang’s 10/10 colorless Eldrazi creature token, created by Desolation Twin from Battle for Zendikar. What was awesome about playing with a lot of the rare Eldrazi cards from BFZ block was that even if your opponent countered your Eldrazi spell, you still get the triggered ability on cast, so in this case, you still get a massive 10/10 Eldrazi that will consume your opponent in no more than two turns.

Click here to check out last week’s arbitrary token: Monk (FRF).

[chaos-storm]

Guys I need help! I’m making tokens for my Desolation Twin eldrazi deck and I need something funny to write on the last two cards!

[thoseeldrizzle]

Desolation Twin by Jack Wang

[magicjudge]

Curious about one of the previous asks. How is Desolation Twin's trigger not countered by Exclude? I figured that if a spell is countered then absolutely nothing happens.

Desolation Twin’s triggered ability triggers when you cast it, not when it enters the battlefield, so by the time the opponent can cast Exclude, the trigger is already on the stack independent of the Desolation Twin spell.

[magicjudge]

If I counter a Desolation Twin with a Exclude what happens?

Then it’s countered and you draw a card.

Its triggered ability is independent of the spell, though, and will still resolve and give your opponent a token.

[magicjudge]

Let's say I play desolation twin and my opponent play's disperse before desolation twin fully resolves does disperse still activate since it's not a permanent I control yet

Disperse can’t target a spell on the stack. It can only target a permanent on the battlefield, and Desolation Twin isn’t a permanent until it resolves and enters the battlefield.