Basri's Aegis

One of the small suite of spells built to make its namesake planeswalker feel inevitable: spread two counters, then tutor Basri, Devoted Paladin straight to your hand, from either the library or the graveyard. The tutor half is the interesting part of the design. Most planeswalker-fetching effects hunt a specific card in your deck; this one also fishes the paladin out of the yard, which quietly turns a discarded or countered walker into a recoverable resource rather than a dead one. The counter distribution is the tax that pays for that consistency: at four mana you get a rate-appropriate counter boost on two bodies, and the card advantage is real but conditional on actually running the one planeswalker it names. Without Basri in the deck, the second clause is blank text and you have paid full price for a two-target counter spread. That is the trade the design makes: a narrowly-keyed value engine that rewards committing to a single card, wrapped around a counter effect that stands on its own if you never draw the payoff. It is a deliberately parasitic build, the kind of matched-pair design that shows up when a set wants to give a signpost planeswalker its own supporting spell without letting that spell float free into every white deck.