And yeah, three of your colors have the means to cheat creatures into play. (Green does from the library, black and to a lesser extent white do so from the graveyard.) I would happily pay 8 life to use Reanimate on Avacyn.
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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!
Larry's "destroy all permanents" death trigger does not do any of those things. You could just use Avacyn, Angel of Hope, however. (By the way, Larry has to go to the graveyard in order to get a death trigger. Same issue with Kokopuffs)
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!
And yeah, three of your colors have the means to cheat creatures into play. (Green does from the library, black and to a lesser extent white do so from the graveyard.) I would happily pay 8 life to use Reanimate on Avacyn.
On phasing:
Long answer: Remember the acronym
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Larry's "destroy all permanents" death trigger does not do any of those things. You could just use Avacyn, Angel of Hope, however. (By the way, Larry has to go to the graveyard in order to get a death trigger. Same issue with Kokopuffs)
But to your first question, Concerted Effort exists.
On phasing: