Its best to play these cards if you have a way to avoid losing the next turn, like Angel's Grace, Platinum Angel, or Lich's Mastery
Drawing Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider is a double dagger, since it means you have that card in your hand and also that you cant search for it with Emergent Ultimatum
You can get even more triggers by leaning on cards like Roaming Throne and Spark Double
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is not classified as casting it or transforming it
I think it's still weak to attacks of medium or higher, but in the UT version, it is possible to cancel during Almagest, so you can induce the opponent to miss through Almagest-evasion