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The Two-for-One: Burn is designed to get you from 20 to 0 life in as few turns as possible

While the replacement effect and mana reduction effect offered by The Earth Crystal are interesting, its activated ability leaves something to be desired

This creates a brutal life tax that forces opponents to expend their health just to interact with your board

It's a fast drop

Even with the downside, the benefit you get from information and making them discard a key spell is worth the life loss, and control/combo decks hate to see a turn-1 Thoughtseize

Fierce Guardianship is one such counterspell that sweetens the deal by eliminating its mana cost if your commander is on the board--something that will likely be the case when you want to cast this spell anyway