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Trading creatures or even using your creatures as sacrifice fodder provides huge upsides
While there are guidelines to keep in mind when deck building (no Game Changers in Exhibition or Core, no mass land denial through Upgraded, etc.), the bracket system is emphatically not just "put your deck into a calculator, get assigned a rank, and be ready to play." I deeply appreciate the tools that websites like Moxfield and Archidekt have put together to give you an overall estimate, and they've done some fantastic iteration to help emphasize intent as wellbut I want to stress that any estimate is just an estimate
When it comes to noncreature spells, Blitzball Stadium rewards you for moving different types of counters to creatures by letting you keep your hand full, and Protection Magic helps you protect your most important creatures for a very low cost
Thats why Id replace it with something a little more efficient, like Evacuation or Cyclonic Rift, which dont target your board state while still slowing down opponents