framed 151 pokemon cards Omanyte from Goldin | The Global Go-To

While it is true that the instant is punishing to decks like Merfolk and that the combination of Punishing Fire and Grove of the Burnwillows is a strong engine if the game goes extremely long, if you look back at the Modern format from Worlds 2011 (the tournament cited in the banned announcement), it looked a lot different than Modern does today

Can Damage Prevention Stop Life Loss

This is often used as an easy way to evolve Pokmon which are able to do so by picking out their respective evolutions from the deck

You can either use this to protect your own creatures from larger threats or remove problems on the other side of the board