I think it really depends, actually. To get the obvious out of the way, this doesn't require blue mana. Second, this is the end of your next turn. I think if digging deeper is more important, then Expressive Iteration is probably the right choice, but this lets you hold up instants that it flips, while EI, doesn't. If you flip Frost Bite, Frost Bite, Frost Bite with EI, you'll have to use one immediately and lose the third, but if they don't have a target, you only get 1 card. With this you can at least wait until the end of your next turn to find targets for two Frost Bites. They both let you play two lands.
That's actually pretty useful since you can play the exiled cards until the end of your next turn.
Oh yeah, it's going to be better than Expressive Iteration in many situations, it doesn't dig as deep but you have more chance to play both of the exiled cards than playing the card you exiled with Iteration, I can definitely see this being played if Mono-R becomes good again, it's similar to Light up the Stage and that card saw lots of play, sure, it's not as good if you're on the offensive, but less painful to cast if you're on the back foot so it kinda evens out.
That's actually pretty useful since you can play the exiled cards until the end of your next turn.
Oh yeah, it's going to be better than Expressive Iteration in many situations, it doesn't dig as deep but you have more chance to play both of the exiled cards than playing the card you exiled with Iteration, I can definitely see this being played if Mono-R becomes good again, it's similar to Light up the Stage and that card saw lots of play, sure, it's not as good if you're on the offensive, but less painful to cast if you're on the back foot so it kinda evens out.
True, nothing worse than drawing Light Up the Stage on an empty board with 4 lands. It's like salt in an open wound. This costing 1 less should at least help mitigate that somewhat. And always costing the same amount of mana should let you balance your mana base accordingly, instead of trying to go a little land light in favor of LUtS, only to get tripped up by your low land count on occasion.
That's actually pretty useful since you can play the exiled cards until the end of your next turn.
Oh yeah, it's going to be better than Expressive Iteration in many situations, it doesn't dig as deep but you have more chance to play both of the exiled cards than playing the card you exiled with Iteration, I can definitely see this being played if Mono-R becomes good again, it's similar to Light up the Stage and that card saw lots of play, sure, it's not as good if you're on the offensive, but less painful to cast if you're on the back foot so it kinda evens out.
Sorry, but this isn't close to being true. If played early Expressive Iteration is nearly always being used to exile a land you play immediately, later the mana isn't a problem. Expressive Iteration like this card isn't actually meant to be played T2, it's a T3 and beyond card, and Expressive Iteration is nearly always better, digging a card deeper, not having a time restriction on when you have to play one of the cards.
This won't be replacing Expressive Iteration in anything, it's a fine card, but suffers from Expressive Iteration being better, meaning this will only be played in decks not also playing blue. It's only going to be a Standard role player if the right archetype emerges for that reason.
Expressive Iteration forces you to play the exiled card on that turn; Reckless Impulse gives you until the end of your next turn. Depending on the situation, one may be better than the other but neither one is going to be strictly better in every circumstance.
Sorry, but this isn't close to being true. If played early Expressive Iteration is nearly always being used to exile a land you play immediately, later the mana isn't a problem. Expressive Iteration like this card isn't actually meant to be played T2, it's a T3 and beyond card, and Expressive Iteration is nearly always better, digging a card deeper, not having a time restriction on when you have to play one of the cards.
This won't be replacing Expressive Iteration in anything, it's a fine card, but suffers from Expressive Iteration being better, meaning this will only be played in decks not also playing blue. It's only going to be a Standard role player if the right archetype emerges for that reason.
I somewhat disagree. The cards are not that strongly related. This is much better turn 2 (except for very old formats). T2 iteration is mostly card filtering, turn 3 you often end up with a mana and nothing to use it - this is not incl. the chances that you miss a land. Turn 4 and later, iteration starts showing its power. This on the other hand is better turn 2 and and fairly equally good turn 3 and is then worse later.
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Expressive Iteration forces you to play the exiled card on that turn; Reckless Impulse gives you until the end of your next turn. Depending on the situation, one may be better than the other but neither one is going to be strictly better in every circumstance.
Which is what I said. You choose which one you put into exile immediately to play, so you're always going to choose one that you can play and fits the circumstances. Outside of getting extremely unlucky Expressive Iteration is always going to better in any deck that can cast it as seeing 3 cards vs 2 is huge. You aren't going to choose to play 1 card over another on the basis of scenarios in the 10% of time it's better than the other, you're just going to choose the one that is better the majority of time, and Expressive Iteration is better the overwhelming majority of the time.
Indeed this doesn't even help that much vs Expressive Iteration in one of the main fail cases of the latter. Which is where you cast it T3 with no land in hand, and then miss hitting a land in your top 3. Chances are if you play this in the same scenario you won't be able to cast both spells you hit unless you hit 2 0-1 mana spells, and the argument of you could then draw a land the next turn doesn't work, as you'd have hit that land in the first place if you were just casting Expressive Iteration.
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Remember Act on Impulse? Years later, we can finally knock 1 and one exiled card off the card to get this to last until your next turn.
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I think it really depends, actually. To get the obvious out of the way, this doesn't require blue mana. Second, this is the end of your next turn. I think if digging deeper is more important, then Expressive Iteration is probably the right choice, but this lets you hold up instants that it flips, while EI, doesn't. If you flip Frost Bite, Frost Bite, Frost Bite with EI, you'll have to use one immediately and lose the third, but if they don't have a target, you only get 1 card. With this you can at least wait until the end of your next turn to find targets for two Frost Bites. They both let you play two lands.
Oh yeah, it's going to be better than Expressive Iteration in many situations, it doesn't dig as deep but you have more chance to play both of the exiled cards than playing the card you exiled with Iteration, I can definitely see this being played if Mono-R becomes good again, it's similar to Light up the Stage and that card saw lots of play, sure, it's not as good if you're on the offensive, but less painful to cast if you're on the back foot so it kinda evens out.
True, nothing worse than drawing Light Up the Stage on an empty board with 4 lands. It's like salt in an open wound. This costing 1 less should at least help mitigate that somewhat. And always costing the same amount of mana should let you balance your mana base accordingly, instead of trying to go a little land light in favor of LUtS, only to get tripped up by your low land count on occasion.
Sorry, but this isn't close to being true. If played early Expressive Iteration is nearly always being used to exile a land you play immediately, later the mana isn't a problem. Expressive Iteration like this card isn't actually meant to be played T2, it's a T3 and beyond card, and Expressive Iteration is nearly always better, digging a card deeper, not having a time restriction on when you have to play one of the cards.
This won't be replacing Expressive Iteration in anything, it's a fine card, but suffers from Expressive Iteration being better, meaning this will only be played in decks not also playing blue. It's only going to be a Standard role player if the right archetype emerges for that reason.
I somewhat disagree. The cards are not that strongly related. This is much better turn 2 (except for very old formats). T2 iteration is mostly card filtering, turn 3 you often end up with a mana and nothing to use it - this is not incl. the chances that you miss a land. Turn 4 and later, iteration starts showing its power. This on the other hand is better turn 2 and and fairly equally good turn 3 and is then worse later.
Which is what I said. You choose which one you put into exile immediately to play, so you're always going to choose one that you can play and fits the circumstances. Outside of getting extremely unlucky Expressive Iteration is always going to better in any deck that can cast it as seeing 3 cards vs 2 is huge. You aren't going to choose to play 1 card over another on the basis of scenarios in the 10% of time it's better than the other, you're just going to choose the one that is better the majority of time, and Expressive Iteration is better the overwhelming majority of the time.