With Termagant Swarm in play, youre not completely set back to square one, which is always valuable
If you pay this additional three mana, instead of a single creature you can phase out someone's entire board
Were not talking Owen Turtenwald or Jon Finkel good, but definitely legit pro level, which never ceases to surprise people who join Wizards of the Coast R&D expecting him to be a casual player
This first category can actually be seen as a form of destruction (although we are moving more toward exiling and putting on the bottom of the library over actual destruction) but, flavorfully, is not getting rid of the creature
Englehard adds that, mechanically, the design team couldn't capture the teenager vibe, so it relied on Frasier and the narrative design team to emphasize that, at the end of the day, they're still teenagers
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