Mairsil, the Pretender Instead of relying on a normal creature plan, Mairsil, the Pretender builds your deck around abilities
Rare Day of Judgment | Illustration by Vincent Proce This is where MTG cards truly start to shine
Traveling Chocobo is a fun addition that lets you play lands off the top of your library and can double up some triggers from the wide variety of lands the deck plays
Render Inert Drawing a card while stripping up to five counters makes Render Inert a tidy two-for-one
When played on Turn 5, it will draw only a single card per hit (though, like Dragonlord Ojutai, it kills remarkably quickly), but in the late game, this dragon can gas back up the Blue player
In addition, once you counter an activated or triggered ability of an Artifact, Creature, or Planeswalker, that card loses all abilities for as long as Tidebinder stays in play