Personally, I've not been excited for this MTG set before now either
So if I am playing a mono blue deck, I dont have the best conventional removal available to me but I do have countermagic available to me
If you sacrificed an Angel to pay the cost of Shilgengar's second ability, use the toughness of that Angel as it last existed on the battlefield to determine how many Blood tokens to create
Mer-Ek Nightblade Plenty of cards give keywords to creatures with +1/+1 counters, but Mer-Ek Nightblade is among the most annoying
When your opponent attacks with two Characters in sequence, they often intend for you to counter the first attack
There's no shortage of ways to spend energy counters in the deck, and can be used to cast spells for free, create creatures, copy permanents, and to pump up the stats of creatures to name a few