In practice, many of the Tyranids play similar to the hydras that use X mana costs
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This is insanely powerful in tempo decks and is far more castable than either of the other free counterspells weve looked at
MatsOle: Fiend Artisan might see some play as it enables you to turn manadorks into threats and disruptive creatures and better play around cards like Plague Engineer
Theres also Ajani, Adversary of Tyrants which works well with the mentor creatures in Boros, as well as the next card on the list, and its hard to justify fitting four copies of a four mana legendary creature in the maindeck
Nesting Dovehawk Like many token payoffs, Nesting Dovehawk is disgusting if your token deck includes an infinite combo