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Cloudform While only manifesting one creature for 3 mana is pretty low-rate, if you can get the right thing under this blue aura, Cloudform can protect some hyper-powerful creatures by giving them hexproof

This then allows blue to use counterspells to stop it, but if blue doesn't have that answer, this category tends to only delay threats rather than get rid of them

Swampwalk allows Sol'kanar to get damage through against anyone playing swamps, and five damage is a lot to go uncontested

While you can remove Drannith Magistrate, that requires you to actually draw a removal spell (in a 99-card deck), and its controller can't have a way to counter that removal

Select from amongst 6 cards (or more depending on its power) to get a creature or land of your choice whenever the creature deals combat damage