One Dozen Eyes

Entwine's whole pitch was the refusal to choose, and this token-maker is one of the most legible demonstrations of why that pitch worked: one card, two genuinely opposed board states, plus a third option for players willing to overpay. The 5/5 Beast is a single resilient threat that survives a sweeper built on small bodies and forces a real removal spell to answer; the five 1/1 Insects are a go-wide swarm that wants an anthem or a sacrifice outlet. Those are opposing strategies stapled to the same sorcery, which is exactly the deckbuilding hedge entwine was built to sell: slot one card and decide which game you are playing once the board tells you which one it wants. Pay the and you take both, six bodies and ten power across a single sorcery, the kind of board-flood that ends stalled games. The cost structure is honest about the tension. Picking one mode is a fair-rate green sorcery; choosing both demands a heavy green commitment that punishes anyone splashing it into a deck not built to support the entwine. That is the lever every entwine card pulls: the modes are individually reasonable, and the combined cost is the tax for refusing to commit. Read as a token engine it is plain enough, but the mechanic teaches what modal-with-entwine is for: not raw power, but the option to defer the decision until the information is in.