Counterspell Negate Swan Song Izzet Charm Counterflux Ionize Reinterpret Swerve Deflecting Swat Copy Everything The key to science is iteration
Suitable options for cards to be played include Gecko Moria from The Seven Warlords of the Sea [ST-03], Jinbe from 500 Years in the Future [OP-07], and Edward Weevil from the Extra Booster Memorial Collection [EB-01]
For instance, the card does some amusing things in Vintage: Creatures (4) Planeswalkers (3) Lands (15) Spells (38) 1 Sensei's Divining Top 1 Brainstorm 2 Mana Drain 1 Vampiric Tutor 1 Mystical Tutor 1 Yawgmoth's Will 4 Force of Will 1 Mana Vault 1 Sol Ring 1 Demonic Tutor 1 Hurkyl's Recall 1 Time Walk 1 Ancestral Recall 1 Mana Crypt 1 Time Vault 1 Merchant Scroll 1 Thirst for Knowledge 1 Tinker 1 Voltaic Key 1 Black Lotus 1 Mox Emerald 1 Mox Jet 1 Mox Pearl 1 Mox Ruby 1 Mox Sapphire 1 Ponder 2 Thoughtseize 1 Nature's Claim 2 Mental Misstep 2 Flusterstorm 1 Toxic Deluge Sideboard To begin with, its not hard to get your Blightsteel Colossus to survive your own Toxic Deluge, but if your opponent plays one, you can just Deluge for eleven
Binders are still the norm for the common collector, graded cards are kinda niche, especially in other countries than the United States where grading is less known
Even cards with evasive abilities like hexproof or flying can be stopped in other ways, but cards with indestructible can feel like an impossible hurdle