Yes, youve got a medicore trick on one side and a mediocre vanilla creature on the other, but you get both on one card, and both halves of this card can conceivably trade with something and that means youre getting a 2-for-1
BUILDS The Seven Warlords of the Sea/Baroque Works Crocodile King of the Desert Battle by reducing your character's cost
Kuzco - Selfish Emperor is another good Shimmering Skies option with this ability, but Hide Away's cheap cost makes it easier to deploy
Let's give it a shot: Izzet Phoenix Test | Modern | Jim Davis Creatures (8) 4 Arclight Phoenix 4 Thing in the Ice Instants (20) 1 Magmatic Sinkhole 2 Izzet Charm 2 Lightning Axe 3 Opt 4 Lightning Bolt 4 Manamorphose 4 Thought Scour Sorceries (11) 2 Finale of Promise 2 Sleight of Hand 3 Chart a Course 4 Serum Visions Enchantments (3) 3 Aria of Flame It's hard to feel out exactly how many Chart a Course/Izzet Charm you want, especially with Lightning Axe also helping out to get Arclight Phoenix into the graveyard for value, but there's still some serious things happening here that need to be respected
So, if I regenerate [c]Isao, Enlightened Bushi[/c], while it has a +1/+1 counter on it, that counter remains
Have you ever seen a real playtest card up close