Hey! Not sire if you've heard of this card before but Familiar's Ruse could be a great card to abuse EBTS! Idk if you've tested it in your deck but its quite handy for mine!

I've seen it in a few modern brews, but never tested it.

I'll proxy it for a few rounds, but I see a few pros/cons

Theorhetical pros:

Soft locks the board with Eternal Witness effects

Helps abuse Panharmonicon and Cloudstone Curio synergies

Can be used defensively to save a key piece

Theorhetical cons:

Doesn't act like a turn 2 counterspell because it requires a body, most turns past that a Cancel or more tricksy counters seem far more viable

May force me to offset my own tempo when the situation isn't viable (having to counter a commander or x spell when I only have one body out)

It will be a fairly bad card in opening hand unless paired with Eternal Witness / Archaeomancer, and some meat to utilize with them like Reality Shift or something.

Could be another avenue of "soft lock" so its worth testing, thanks for the recommendation Zerraphon :)

Yeah! I figured it would be good atleast for me because my kruphix is mainly late game so i cast my big eldrazi and can use it to protect them and abuse the 'on cast' part of my eldrazi, which is what i love about it!

its good card for sure, especially for recasting the big baddies.

I just need early counters to be early counters, for most gamesI would prefer throwing in Spell Swindle or Rewind if I were gonna add another counter.

or Mana Drain once it dips enough

but I will definitely test :)

Illusory Ambusher

gonna test this dork against my meta for a bit, not sure it does enough to merit a permanent slot...but that's what these tests are for!