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That makes Recoil one of those cards that has a hard time being bad until the point when your opponent has extra lands they can hold in their hand in order to discard them, at which point most decks that run Recoil are either using that as an excuse to crank up the discard engine or more likely happy enough to have survived this long that they don't care

Andreliverod (July 3, 2019)

In a similar vein, Expert Judge X brings up an excellent advanced technique in this category: the dance of having the Spray. Here, upper-level SP players use several ploys to trick their opponents into thinking that they either do or do not have a Power Spray

As well, once Ovinomancer was active, it was nigh-unkillable itself, since returning it to your hand is part of the cost and not effect