Its great for protecting your board or disrupting big plays while making use of your artifact tokens or mostly tapped-out mana base
(7/14/2017) While resolving Torment of Venom, the creature's controller chooses a card to be discarded without revealing it, chooses a nonland permanent to be sacrificed, or chooses to do neither
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Monster X-Cross Cannon SR3 Y-Dragon Earhead R x 3 Z-Zillion Caterpillar R3 X-Head Cannon N1 Y-Dragon Head N1 Z-Metal Caterpillar N1 A-Assault Core N3 B-Buster Kurama N3 C-Crash Winged Dragon, Guardian of the Fortress #2 N3 Union Driver N1 Therions "King" Regulus UR1 magic Union Hangar N3 Terraforming N1 X-Y-Z Combine N1 Unauthorized Restart SR3 Fusion Deployment N3 Union Activation SR3 Trap Union Scramble N1 AtoZ Energy Load R1 EX ABC-Dragon Buster N3 XYZ-Dragon Cannon N1 AtoZ-Dragon Buster Cannon N1 XYZ-Hyper Dragon Cannon UR3 Union Controller SR2 Platinum Gadget N1 Qliphort Genius SR1 Lyna the Light Charmer, Lustrous SR1 Versbutte the Encourager SR1 Starliege Photon Blast Dragon SR1 #GATCHA Deck Item ID: 348978637
At the Kingslayer Games Proquest event, Evan Bridges used a hybrid Lexi to take first place, using the combined power of the constant pressure imposed by aggro cards like Rain Razors and control moves like Amulet of Ice to ruthlessly shut opponents out of their game plans
From a card design standpoint, this is captured with the creation of the Daybound/Nightbound mechanic on werewolves