Its a lot of fun to play, but a horrible thing to fight against
Even in a control role, blue sometimes gets more card advantage from its creatures than from its card draw spells and planeswalkers
Counter Trap Card Counter Trap Cards (Japanese: Kaunt Torappu Kdo ) are a subcategory of Trap Cards that are Spell Speed 3
Meteor Golem Spine of Ish-Sah, but can't target lands (why???), doesn't have a neat built-in recursion trigger, buuuut it's a creature so that opens up more synergies
It introduced a new planeswalker, Dack Fayden (Eric Deschamp concept illustration shown here) who could easily be mistaken for a GQ front pager
If you could get something on the battlefield, it makes a token whenever a land enters the battlefield, like a Scute Swarm or a Springheart Nantuko