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Judge's Familiar
Creature — Bird
Flying
Sacrifice Judge's Familiar: Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays
DreadKhan on
Flying into the Chasms
6 months ago
I gather you are looking for suggestions in the area of counterspells? I suspect you might consider whether you usually need to counter creature or non-creature spells, as there are Negate and Essence Scatter at 1U, as well as An Offer You Can't Refuse for a mere U. As you're in mono-Blue, if you didn't mind upping the budget a bit there is Counterspell, which is a fine card in many ways if not really suited to more competitive arenas.
Pretty out there, but Spiketail Hatchling, Spiketail Drakeling, and Spiketail Drake can all be sacrificed to counter an opponent using fairly large spells/effects, especially stuff like wipes. There is also Judge's Familiar to help with this, but it's more narrow. You mainly use these guys to protect something more important, including to counter an opponent's board wipe.
If your games tend to go pretty long, Gargoyle Castle can be useful, a 3/4 flyer trumps a Delver. The key is that it uses a land slot to be potentially a very solid body. There is also Mishra's Factory that can offer you a body, with Mishra's Factory being very hard to deal with as it's only a creature on your turn, and you don't have to summon it, so it blanks a lot of solutions and saw play in control decks historically for these reasons. I mention these two because you run a decent number of lands, perhaps you wouldn't notice having some colourless lands with so many Islands, and could benefit from some situational bodies.
Delphen7 on Viability - mono blue wincons
7 months ago
I ran a mono blue aggro list for a very long time that's decently powerful, the win con was Nivmagus Elemental. It involved lots of free spells like Snapback, March of Swirling Mist, Disrupting Shoal and Flusterstorm to grow Blistercoil out of nowhere and some other aggressive critters. Judge's Familiar, Thing in the Ice  Flip, and Delver of Secrets  Flip are the most notable of those
kamarupa on
Protect the kingdom
9 months ago
more counterspells, add draw card/scry/tutor, and remove some creatures or use your creatures for better utility abilities like counterspell, draw card, removal, etc. Defenders can't protect your Azor's Elocutors from removal and by turn 5, you're likely to have used any Counterspells you've drawn.
Send Wingcrafter to the sideboard.
Wall of Omens seems to fit your theme of defensive creatures and it cantrips, which you definitely want to help cycle through the deck to get to your wincon. I don't think this is a great direction to go, but I think it's better than at least one of the defenders you're already including.
Judge's Familiar (maybeboard) won't be good unless you can pump it.
Cut Ring of Three Wishes, as its MV to cast and activate are just way too high.
Some of these spells and their ilk would be good here: Blustersquall, Mana Leak, Serum Visions, Delver of Secrets  Flip.
Saccox on
Fly with Pezzent Air-lines! (10/12 Euro/$)
9 months ago
Balaam__ it's a strong card but i want draw cards with the creatures,put it in the maybeboard.
YodaVoda Sephara, Sky's Blade it's over budget. Lofty Denial i don't want counters in this deck. Judge's Familiar and Thunderclap Wyvern are interesting,put in the maybeboard.
Exogino for me,it's more strong Cryptic Caves. the ability cost only 2 mana,in the same turn i can draw and play a spell. I could put 2 Skybridge Towers instead of 2 Tranquil Cove
thanks all for the help ^^
YodaVoda on
Fly with Pezzent Air-lines! (10/12 Euro/$)
9 months ago
nice deck. maybe try Lofty Denial, Judge's Familiar, Sephara, Sky's Blade or Thunderclap Wyvern
SithLord on
Birb Storm
10 months ago
There are very few birds to be found here. Odd, because this is a tribal bird theme deck. You aren't even running Maskwood Nexus or Arcane Adaptation
So here are some birds I found that would be fun to play:
Aven Brigadier !!!!!
Whippoorwill an exile for so little the cost
Storm Crow why isn't this here?
Spire Owl cheap, but nice
Sephara, Sky's Blade this hits the field by turn 4 for 1 white mana!
Ledger Shredder badass name and badass ability
Cartographer's Hawk a fun card that empties your deck of plains
Flurry of Wings and Settle the Wreckage There is so much fun to be had
Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker_ look at this scawwwwww _ Warden of Evos Isle not needed, but nice for making 5 mana birds cost less
Empyrean Eagle lord
Kangee, Sky Warden all it takes is one 1/1 bird token to scwwwaaa
Kangee, Aerie Keeper you can't run one bird and not have any feathers ay?
Shabraz, the Skyshark its a sharknado
Wingmate Roc the best wingman
High Sentinels of Arashin use your mana ramp to buff your army
Nimble Obstructionist _a tale's end _
Emeria Angel dude
DreadKhan on
Seoul Sista!
1 year ago
Well, if you're desperate (and can draw extra cards), you could try out Null Brooch to counter wipes and removal spells. If you have no cards in hand, you can still use it btw, you just pitch whatever you actually have to counter something, and can do it every turn. They've spikes a bit I guess, so maybe keep an eye out if they go down again.
There is also Judge's Familiar, which can counter a spell (kind of).
McDrizzlenuts on
Taxed 2 Death
1 year ago
Hey, thanks! I'm running 4 Unsettled Mariner at the moment. I love Giver of Runes but the one drop slot is pretty full. I like having Judge's Familiar for evasion and that last additional tax haha
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