Dominaria United is the long-awaited return to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Magic: The Gathering's home plane of Dominaria. As well as lore significance, this set also brings a huge pile of great cards to Standard and eternal formats alike. Most players are sure to find something to love in Dominaria United, with everything from mono-colored tribal decks to enchantment combo decks receiving some great new spells.
While just about everyone will get something from Dominaria United, blue players have been particularly spoiled this time around, thanks to a slew of great creatures and enchantments. If you're looking to build a blue deck or spice up your existing ones, check out these amazing new cards.
10 ☂ Impede Momentum
Impede Momentum may not be the flashiest card on this list, but it deserves to be included anyway, thanks to its usefulness in Limited. Dominaria United has some of the best creatures that Draft has seen in a long time, and using Impede Momentum is a great way to delay your opponent's greatest threats from taking you out.
While it's not the best way to tap an opponent's creature down, it is an essential piece of control for any blue Dominaria United Draft deck.
9 Combat Research 🌃
Combat Research is a great way to gain the edge in Standard and Limited games. Its power levels may not completely blow you away, but a🧜nything that draws cards and protects your strongest creatures is welcome in 1v1 format🦩s.
Combat Research is also remarkably cheap to cast for how widely usable it is in Limited, with a mana cost of only 1 blue. Be sure to piꦑck this up for some much-needed card advantage next time you draft some Dominaria United.
8 ♔ Sphinx Of Clear Skies
Sphinx of Clear Skies is a mono-blue 5/5 creature that, predictably, draws you cards. What's not predictable about Sphinx of Clear Skies, though, is its link to multicolored decks. The amount of cards you draw off of the Sphinx's ability trigger depends entirely on how many basic land types you control, making this card all but useless in mono-blue decks.
Since Sphinx of Clear Skies only really excels in three, four, or five color decks, it's unlikely you'll be coming up against one in Standard. If you plan on using the Sphinx, you're best off putting it in a Flying tribal Commander deck. While it isn't among 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the best Flying creatures ever prin💫ted, it's certainly worth considering next time you're in need of some creature-led card draw.
7 🐟 Vodalian♚ Mindsinger
Vodalian Mindsinger is another situational creature, offering a niche card stealing effect not quite strong enough to trigger Agent of Treachery flashbacks. On the surface, Vodalian Mindsinger makes up for its relative weakness with its low mana value. Unfortunately, you'll have to pay a Kicker cost or two to get some proper value out of it.
Mindsinger's high Kicker requirement means that it probably won't see any play in Standard. Luckily, Vodalian Mindsinger is sure to find a home in Commander decks, where mana is much easier to come by.
6 Haughty Djinn ꩲ
Haunghty Djinn is a unique creature that gets stronger for each instant or sorcery in your graveyard. As well as powering up off the back of used-up spells, Haughty Djinn encourages more spell slinging through i🔯ts second ab🐼ility.
This ramping ability makes it perfect for Commander decks that run lots of cheap spells and want to get started quickly. Alternatively, you can also use Haughty Djinn as a big creature to swing in with if you're planning on dumping your deck into your graveyard, Lab Maniac style.
5 The Phasing ♔of Zhalfir
The Phasing of Zhalfir is a great saga that hugely benefits from the new keyword ability Read Ahead. By using Read Ahead, you can choose to start a saga from any chapter, allowing you to skip straight to the effect that you want it to activate. You'll likely do this any time you play The Phasing of Zhalfir, thanks to its unique board wipe in its third chapter.
The Phasing of Zhalfir's final chapter is a very unusual board wipe for blue, changing out the usual bounce effects for a destruction of every creature, Damnation style. While it does have the potential downside of replacing each destroyed creature with a 2/2 Phyrexian, that isn't enough to stop The Phasing of Zhalfir from being one of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the best blue board wipes.
4 ♚ Vesuvan Duplimancy
Vesuvan Duplimancy may be a niche card, but it makes up for that with the incredible power it will have in decks that are built around its copying mechanic. It likely won't end up in any tournament-winning Standard decklists, but that doesn't matter - Vesuvan Duplimancy is a future auto-include in all Commander clone decks.
While its ability can trigger w♛hen any kind of spell targets a single creature or artifact, Vesuvan Duplimancy will be at its best when the target in question is already being cloned. With this enchantment on the board, one copy becomes two, giving you three of your most valuable creature or enchantments.
3 �𒊎� Aether Channeler
It may be surprising to see Aether Channeler so far up this list. None of its abilities are particularly powerful, and its mana value isn't incredibly low, either. What Aether Channeler does have, though, is a ton of versatility.
Aether Channeler's three abilities aren't strong on their own - in fact, each of them are pretty basic. When combined, though, they form a card that is all about giving your deck more consistency. No matter what you need, Aether Channeler can probably provide it. Whether you need some board presence, some cards, or to disrupt your opponent's plan, Aether Channeler can help you out with it.
2 🌜 Defiler of Dreams🌃
Defiler of Dreams is probably the most widely usable blue card in the set, and will easily find a place in many Standard and Commander🐲 decks. It may even prove to be an auto-include in blue Commander decks going forward, thanks to its easily accessible ramping ability.
For just 2 life, Defiler of Dreams can make your blue permanents cost less to cast. While this is unlikely to be game-changing in 1v1 formats where you start with just 20 life, Commander players can pay 2 life every time, safe in the knowledge they have a ඣmountain of life still left.
As well as ramping, Defiler of Dreams is also great in blue decks that want to draw lots of cards (which is basically all of them). Its card draw effect isn't the strongest in the format by a long shot, but combined with its ramping ability, it's likely that Commander players will be seeing a lot of Defiler of Dreams in years to come.
1 Vodalian Hexc�♋�atcher
Vodalian Hexcatcher is what many would describe as 'generically good', meaning that it can fit in just about any deck of the archetype it's designed for. It's hard to imagine a Merfolk deck where Vodalian Hexcatcher wouldn't fit in nicely.
Its simple anthem effect is a classic of tribal decks, buffing other Merfolk for as long as Hexcatcher is on the battlefield. Buffing Merfolk in particular gives Vodalian Hexcatcher an edge over many other tribal lords, in that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:it wiꦦll also see play in the Modern 🃏format thanks to Modern's popular Merfolk deck.
As well as an anthem effect, Vodalian Hexcatcher also has a last resort counterspell as its second ability. While its counterspell may seem inefficient at first glance, Vodalian Hexcatcher's Flash ability means you can cast it at instant speed, then have it sacrifice itself to trigger the counterspell ability if need be.