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Its alternate casting cost of paying 1 life and exiling a blue card from your hand will always ensure youll never have to hardcast it
Its also solid just to cast it and then flash it back, though Id definitely try to include ways to 2-for-1 with it
If Shining Shoal was cast in advance with X = 6 and Abyssal Persecutor was chosen as a source of the damage, all this damage will be redirected
It was the third set of the Masques block, and when released, was one of the least popular sets ever among tournament players
Then it has similar abilities as Heliod, Sun-Crowned in granting lifelink to others and distributing the counters to others, but if we check for the party status, this gets amped up with a rogue, warrior, and wizard in play