Graveyard: When a permanent is destroyed, a card is discarded, or an instant or sorcery spell has finished its effect, it goes to the graveyard
Once the ability starts resolving, it's too late for anyone to respond by removing Bloodfeather Phoenix from your graveyard to stop you from bringing it back
Can I Print Full Commander Decks and EDH Staples
Its a powerful protection piece if you can offset the loss of a land and paying life into the cumulative upkeep costand circumvent not being able to attack
It might seem unnecessary to devote three paragraphs to the intricacies of reds LD and artifact hate sideboarding decisions, but in my mind thats where reds hidden strength lies in Modern
At first, I assumed this would even out among the competitors after all, a crash can be negative or positive for you but Lucas Esper Berthoud brought up that it affected the slower decks more negatively and I think hes right