Twig of the world tree is a “Kobolds and Catacombs” weapon that gives 10 mana crystals when the durability is exhausted or weapon broken (a bit overpowered when it comes to that and floops goop).
Astral Communion is a “Grand Tournament” spell that gains 10 mana crystals but discards your entire hand (a supremely terrible card when it is used or rng’d imo).
So with ‘Twig of the World tree’, does this make ‘Astral Communion’ redundant?
Its not even a risk for rng for astral communion, you just discard your hand. Usually that would be losing the match. With the twig however, it has a much safer, easier and direct method of gaining those crystals without any risk. Overlapping another weapon over twig instantly grants you those crystals.
I’ve seen both interactions in wild but as meme only as they are still inconsistent way to win 4 druid. Astral is either draw it or die, if you draw it the discard effect is not a thing all your cards are high end cards, you either have an answer or die. Aggro just kills Druid in any case here. With twigs I’ve seen the one mana legendary overlapping the 1st wep in order to have 10mana with cards at hands still slow; specially if the other wep is at the bottom of the deck. Can’t say which one is better, I’ve to say neither specially in wild ladder.
Astral Communion was meant to be bad highroll card.
Twig was released in Kobolds, back then Druid couldn’t break the Twig so easily, so they couldn’t use it to ramp up to 10.
When they released the neutral weapon, Twig had already been in Wild for over a year and nobody used it. They don’t take Wild cards into account when designing new Standard cards.
People weren’t using the Twig combo until recently with the advent of new cards like Aquatic Form that allowed the players to more quickly find the two weapons together. It’s a problematic interaction now because of the increased consistency.
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It also became stronger because thanks to Guff you can benefit from +10 mana crystals even if you are already at 10 mana (thanks to guff)