Fury Charm has an option to remove time counters from a permanent or suspended card
Control decks want to play very few actual win conditions in their deckand having them be indestructible means you have to worry far less about them dying to a stray Abrade and making your ability to turn the corner and push toward winning that much harder
Why bother exploring these cards
Indestructible blanks a lot of the most popular removal and board wipes out there, which means your opponents will usually have to work a bit if they want it gone for a turn
Platinum : Butterfly-like symbol Number of cards: 133 Release date: February 11, 2009 Abbreviation: PL Platinum: Rising Rivals : Stylized X symbol Number of cards: 120 Release date: May 16, 2009 Abbreviation: RR Platinum: Supreme Victors : Diamond-like symbol with a line through the center Number of cards: 153 Release date: August 19, 2009 Abbreviation: SV Platinum: Arceus : Open circle surrounded by parentheses Number of cards: 111 Release date: November 4, 2009 Abbreviation: AR Advertisement There are 4 sets in the HeartGold and SoulSilver series, which were released throughout 2010 and 2011
We even started Scars of Mirrodin design with poisonous as our Phyrexian mechanic, but playtests showed that players tended to die to the damage before the poison