It's also important to keep in mind that people didn't think of these cards as collectibles when they were initially released
Speaking of surveil: since Golbez is so good at it and hes only a 2-drop so hell consistently be on the battlefield, I added a couple ways to take advantage of surveil specifically: we mentioned the Tail but theres also Mirko, Obsessive Theorist which works great as a growing threat that reanimates, Matoya, Archon Elder turns all that surveil into draw, and Eye of Duskmantle lets us cast whatever we surveil with life instead of mana
A good control list will have dedicated parts of the deck tailored to efficiently deal with creatures thus allowing you to reserve your counterspells for things that you need them against such as Armageddon, planeswalkers, Mind Twist and so forth
If youve got a lot of two-color spells, you should give it a try
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