Hello.
My friend wanted something on a similar power level to my
Urza, Lord High Artificer deck so that he could combat it. He has a fairly powerful
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician deck, but I can usually stomp Yawggy's face into the ground (as it should be,
Urza is a practically a demi-god), thus
Baral, Chief of Compliance was born. Got very annoyed with the whole permission deck so I included cards like
mana maze and
mana web, and the games take longer, but I can usually pull off the win. So here we are at
Najeela, the Blade-Blossom. This is a lot rougher because she is 5 colors. She doesn't suffer from the lack of artifact/enchantment revoval that black and blue do, which I capaitalized on. She can potentially hold an answer for ANYTHING due to the 5 colors. Crawl Space seems like it would be good, but that just causes him to attack someone else first, but if you're familar with her style of deck, it doesn't particularly matter as long as someone is open to swing out with something like
sword of feast and famine in play. So I need ways, particularly in mono blue, that I can shut down this deck, or delay it long enough to allow me to win.
What I have so far to
stifle attacking, is
Silent Arbiter, which I think would be a lot better than
Crawlspace. I have yet to throw it in, but I might need to, and take out
crawlspace.
The mana base is very expensive, so I was thinking of ways to punish that and all I have is
back to basics. 1 out of 99 cards that I can't easily tutor for in blue, so any other ideas would be great
Thanks