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As long as youve got information about your opponents cards, you can always turn off a huge portion of their deck

Second, the permanent controller chooses to sacrifice it, so hexproof cant save it there either

And, even though Wizards of the Coast (WotC) tried their best to erase it by printing it several times with completely different art, most people still know its Chris Pikulas card, which is what you want if youre an Invitational winner

Youve got two one-sided board clears with Toxic Deluge, which often you can set up to clear everything with 8 toughness and lower and miss your 9/9s

If not then you put a +1/+1 counter on the creature that explored, and then put the card back onto the top of your deck or into your graveyard