Baral, Chief of Compliance, is, without a doubt, the purest version of the Mono-Blue experience: your opponents try to do something, anything, and you explain, politely but firmly, that they will not be doing that
And if your group tests with proxies to save money while you tune, do what works
On turn 3 you cast Titanic Growth then play a pair of Forests, or if you don't have Exploration, any fetch land that can crack itself and put another into play like Evolving Wilds does the trick to bring the power on your side of the table to 20
The Five Best One-Color Commander Decks for Beginners in Magic: The Gathering Many beginners look at the Commander format from the sidelines, intimidated by 99-card decks and rainbow mana bases, but I have good news, the easiest on-ramp into the format is to pick a single color and never look back
Certainly the Onslaught cards are not deep nor do they have a high average power level but none the less the set offers some staples, some nice effects, some key cards in certain places, including some nice tribal stuff and of course great cycling things