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An 8/7 creature with vigilance for 6 is very good and your opponent will think twice before pointing removal spells at your creatures

Brazen Blademaster will still get +2/+1 until end of turn

with Riku in play, you can cast the cards with no downside

The narrative possibilities of this approach have their limits, however, so after the first few such novels, stories featuring more down-to-earth characters having traditional fantasy adventures became the norm

Mindcrank is a way to transform milling into damage

This then allows blue to use counterspells to stop it, but if blue doesn't have that answer, this category tends to only delay threats rather than get rid of them