Pir, Imaginative Rascal Pir, Imaginative Rascal is slightly different than Lae'zel, Vlaakith's Champion, but its so much better if you have access to Toothy, Imaginary Friend
It completely shuts down graveyard strategies by exiling cards instead, and you can sacrifice Voidwalker to play an exiled card without paying its mana cost
Whenever you roll one or more dice, you may have Vrondiss deal 1 damage to itself.
Intermediate Counter Burn - how it looked a year ish ago after M12 hit 24 Spells Lightening Bolt Burst Lightening Ancestral Visions Spell Pierce Remand Fire / Ice Arc Trail Arcane Denial Counterspell Lat-Nam's Legacy Chandra's Phoenix Vendilion Clique Manic Vandal Sea Gate Oracle Jace, the Mind Sculptor Chandra, the Fireheart Cryptic Command Time Warp Treachery Force of Will Inferno Titan Wurmcoil Engine Consecrated Sphinx Rolling Earthquake 16 Lands Izzet Boilerworks Volcanic Island Steam Vents Scalding Tarn Shivan Reef Cascade Bluffs Faerie Conclave 3 Mountains 6 Islands Counter burn had risen to the best control deck and arguably the best archetype in my cube and then they went and released Innistrad block which is probably the single biggest block in terms of contributing power cards to the archetype
They have a different frame from other MTG cards and striated boxes for the level up cost and each of the different levels
This is great if youre like me and have trouble cutting cards from decks or want to lean hard into a theme