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These cards make board wipes less devastating since you can follow up by recasting Sin, attacking, and generating a board presence once again

This will certainly boost the power of the deck, just not to the same level that you can upgrade others (like Timeless Wisdom)

In each case, they are similar but a little different

One of Magic's best birds, Baleful Strix is the ultimate 2-for-1, drawing a card now and trading for something later, whether thats a removal spell or another creature

The 1/1 tokens it creates bring little to no value to this decks gameplay, especially because you cant ensure their damage will land on opponents to help activate the 4 damage draw trigger

I love Planetary Annihilation and what it represents which is Wizards experimenting with ways to punish big ramp decks without screwing everyone else