Demonic Tutor lets us cut directly through that variance, selecting the perfect card we need at the moment in return for a generic and a Black mana
Even the threat of doing so was valuable, as no one could set up a combat where they would be crippled by facing a 7/7 instead of a 5/5
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As such, even if mass land destruction is normally hated or at least disliked by most players, Planetary Annihilation fills this niche in a way that is not really too problematic for everyone at the table
