Bouncing your own stuff is horrendous for tempo but none the less is often worth doing in the long games where you rely on a certain threat to win or really need the extra value from an enter the battlefield effect
Technically Playable - Phenax, God of Deception (Phenax, God of DeceptionPhenax, God of Deception | Art by Ryan Barger) Technically Playable - Phenax, God of Deception Welcome to Technically Playable , where our mission statement is "Every commander is Technically playable" (the best kind of playable)
It's not a terrible card to just have, in general terms, especially in group hug you to death decks, though red and blue aren't that typical in those decks (well blue is) so, nice to see more balanced goad cards I guess
Fair warning: people will target him, and the deck is built for that
That made it a great candidate for an individual card design