![]() There are so many 2-drops in Magic that are awesome for a variety of reasons, and because my top 8 didn’t necessarily show that variation I wanted to touch on it in the honorable mentions to showcase how 2-drop creatures enable different strategies. There are no cards in my actual top 8 that are not relevant players in current tournament Magic, but I did use long-term success as a tiebreaker. “All time” implies that history matters-and it does-but being good right now matters a lot as well.Casting the card on turn 2 has to be something players actually intend to do (Sorry, Narcomoeba, but anybody who casts you on turn 2 is losing… great card with CMC=2, but terrible “2-drop”).Must be castable with 2 mana on turn 2 (Sorry, Serra Avenger and Matter Reshaper!).Card type – Creature (Sorry, Bitterblossom!).Here are the rules I made for today’s list: The fact that we use this language when talking about 1-, 2-, and 3-drops suggests that there is a correlation between the term 2-drop and casting the card on the second turn. I could double down and figure out how to answer the question I initially asked: “What are the best 2-drop creatures of all time?” by actually thinking about what it means to be a great 2-drop.įirst of all, what the heck are we talking about when we say “2-drop” creatures? To me, it suggests a creature that costs 2 mana we want to cast on the second turn. Obviously, I didn’t do this because that isn’t the name of the article you are reading, but so as not to subvert expectation completely I’ll give that list at the end of the article.Ģ. I could change how I framed it: “The Top 8 Best Creatures You Can Cast for 2 Mana.” There were at least two roads I could take with the topic:ġ. I realized not all 2-drops qualify as “bears” because they don’t attack and block, and not all creatures that can be cast for 2 mana necessarily qualify as 2-drops. I had Bears on the brain when I set out to write this article, but the deeper I got into my topic, the fuzzier it became. The undercosted broken spells such as the Power 9 are the most iconic features of early design, but Grizzly Bears is among the most significant features of costing that design nailed on the head.Įven 28 years later, the 2/2 for 2 baseline holds true as a reasonable bear-o-meter of what a common 2-drop should be. “My Draft deck needed bears” translates to, “I didn’t have enough 2-drop creatures and would have the bear minimum in terms of quality.” As concepts like “mana curve” and “tempo” became more firmly established and discussed, people realized that “doing something” and deploying a threat on turn 2 led to success. ![]() So why do we call great 2-drops bears and not knights? It comes back to being a common printed in over a dozen consecutive core sets and people using the card (then a fixture of Limited play) as a point of reference. Nonetheless, 2-drop creatures have come a long way since the days when Knights were the best 2-drop creatures in the game. Even after 28 years of power creep, they don’t make ‘em like this any more… In formats they are legal, they are restricted to a single copy. These cards are pretty unreasonable and are banned in most formats.
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