While this wont allow you to cheat out too many hard hitters, you should be able to secure some great defenders or creatures that are costly thanks to their abilities
Honor-Worn Shaku is a personal favorite, letting you tap your planeswalkers for mana without interfering with how they work
Defensive phase-outs like Teferis Protection also allow creatures to dodge boardwipes, edicts and other non-targeted removal, where many flicker effects simply return them to the battlefield in time to perish by the next spell you had been responding to on the stack
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Now consider that Visions put phasing in close proximity with some of the all-time-best ETB triggers, and that the average players understanding of the rules (and to be fair, the rules themselves) were much more loose than in our present era
