If the ninjutsu ability had been introduced in a different set, with different flavor and on different creatures, I wonder if it would have become another recurring mechanic, like cycling or convoke
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With Phelia, your gameplan is much deeper as you try to accrue value from your Enter the Battlefield effect abilities, and despite being a MonoColor deck you can go toe-to-toe with the Blue decks and even be able to outgrind them
I'm not sure this makes much sense anywhere outside the Mutant Menace precon it came in, since rad counters don't translate to most green decks that care about giant creatures all that well
Since Sothera exiles, it prevents those creatures from triggering death triggers, and lets you take a creature for yourself if a battlefield is ever empty