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Black in Theros: Beyond Death also combines a mixture of nasty instant spells like Final Death, which exiles a creature immediately, and the delightful Eat to Extinction, which devours the opponent creature - like the rotted black giant depicted on the card

With the added buff, this card also goes great in a Voltron package or any kind of Xenagos, God of Revels style beatdown deck

They dont have to fit two bits of art in one frame (as cool as the effect is) or two separate text boxes on the same face of the card

But the steeper mana commitment, plus the fact Phenax technically does nothing on its own, locks it more into the role of build-around/win condition