This ability allows the player to search their deck for any card and take it into their hand before shuffling the deck , offering a significant boost to control
Banner of Kinship is the definition of an easy win for a list like this
While some of the aggro decks featured last week would be happy to never draw another land again beyond number three or four, control decks typically need to hit all of their land drops all the way into turn six, turn seven, and sometimes even beyond that
Itd need a fully built Elemental Typal deck to really do work, and typal strategies have consistently not been competitive
Its a nice way to get your Prowess triggers going, and it pairs nicely with Monstrous Rage to enable some explosive bursts out of nowhere
As you might expect, phasing quickly became infamous for causing confusion and arguments over rulings, forcing Wizards to publish repeated clarifications at a time when that meant waiting a month to print them in the next Duelist magazine