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Spells can also be used to boost minions or perform various other abilities

Likewise, if youre bringing in Energy Flux out of the board this is a consideration for cutting, to make Flux even more one-sided

Designs go much wider than this, though, and there are sometimes other ways to turn them into creatures

It seems impossible to play the classic blue tempo deck in Modern these days, but a deck full of Hookblade Veteran and other cheap assassins in blue running Escape Detection, Flare of Denial and other cheap interaction cards seems tempting if probably futile

Putting Etali in a deck featuring White or Blue also provides access to all of the flicker effects in those colors like Essence Flux and Ephemerate

The ability just doesnt scale well with clunky expensive creatures like Sigiled Behemoth