mtg arena card prices Phyrexian - Magic: The Gathering Foundations #728 (English) Foundations (FDN) #180 Illustrated by Svetlin Velinov Magic 1996 MTG Magic the Gathering

Ashcloud Phoenix is great in any deck built around those types of mechanics, because unlike most Morph creatures it can go back and forth between being face up and face down

For instance, in an Archimandrite deck you could gain a bunch of life in your upkeep and first main phase to add a big +X/+0 buff to your commander, then use Alteration to turn it into Giggling Skitterspike

Baleful Strix is one of those cards that would be pretty miserable in a lot of Constructed formats that ends up being a lot more reasonable and fun when playing singleton

It may feel insignificant, but youre now essentially keeping everyone down one card until this creature is dealt with