This card is a perfect defensive topdeck against pretty much anything, and can say no to anything at any time
In that sort of a role Remand is the vastly more desirable card, you want countermagic to deal with stuff cheaply and efficiently, you play card advantage spells to provide the late game inevitability and so you are just harming your own disruptive power by trying to combine the two into one overcost card
Black Lotus Channel First Printed: 1993-AUG Banned: 2010-JUN Channel abuses two important aspects of the format: 1) Higher life totals make the life payment essentially trivial if this is played in the early game
This is my ranking: Spongebob Legends Spongebob Memes Spongebob Lands (Somehow in my article last week I missed that you get two of each land!) Garden Buds They Grow Up So Fast Tragic Romance Pick em and Stick em Twisted Toons Class of 87 Personally, I might get one all-foil drop and then focus on Spongebob
Aggressive blue decks do exist, and they bring a uniquely blue flavor to typical creature beatdown
Look to these instead for their spell copying, card advantage, and rebounding ability, which are mana advantages in another way