[Shardphoenix]

I think, N already has enough ways to deal with lonely thugs - vine arrow, stream of life (against self-buffing thugs), polymorph, charm... What it lacks is a good, low-level chaff-killer. Flood of life needs a ton of +N to be really effective, Storm of thorns is so high in Evo it may as well be non-existant, poison/sleep clouds need time to work and have friendly fire issues.