Thankfully pirates often come with built-in evasion to help push past blockers, and the lord effect certainly helps
95% of the time, the triggered ability probably isnt worth a removal spell thats going to be better sent towards Rhystic Study or Smothering Tithe, but once enough cards have been exiled, the risk from rolling a 20 is going to weigh on your opponents
By turn five, you can make him a 7/7 and ping away a couple of little guys, but turn 12
There has never been a deck in the history of Magic that would not have loved to get its hand on one of these, and that's a statement that cannot be made for any other card
This deck could be the cure for my condition, proving beyond any doubt that it's really powerful to be able to see more of your deck in a given game
You can also stack multiple instances of Phelddagrifs abilities to give your opponents lots of benefits, enabling different payoffs