It's like fight or impulse draw. It deals with a traditional green deficit in a way that can only be described as that color. (Even though obviously this ability is something red also gets, and something you could expect to see on a (G/U) hybrid creature.)
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Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
Creature - Elf Scout Uncommon
2G: Target creature you control can’t be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less this turn.
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Well, in some sense it is conceptually similar to trample - both makes small chump blockers undesirable.
Sure, it is.
Actually, in ROE draft, Aura Gnarlid was a hot item because it gets huge fast. It also appears on a vertical cycle in AVR. There was also Den Protector, Shrill Howler, and the original Skarrgan Pit-Skulk and Battering Wurm. It's easy to see how you could forget the Ravnica version, since those creatures sucked.
It's like fight or impulse draw. It deals with a traditional green deficit in a way that can only be described as that color. (Even though obviously this ability is something red also gets, and something you could expect to see on a (G/U) hybrid creature.)
On phasing: