Deepchannel Mentor

Blue's recurring fascination with making combat irrelevant rather than winning it, here at a price that never quite justified the ambition. The effect is the loud part of a long tradition: unblockable-granters have come cheaper and narrower (Thassa, God of the Sea pushes one creature through; Cover of Darkness asks for a creature type), but this one paints the entire blue half of your board with the same brush, no tribe required, no targeting, no upkeep cost. The breadth is the appeal and the rate is the argument against it. Six mana buys a 2/2 whose static ability does include itself: it slips through unblocked the same as everything else blue you control, which makes it a self-sufficient threat in a vacuum. But a 2/2 that dies to a stiff breeze is a fragile carrier for a six-mana investment, and the effect only scales once you have committed other blue creatures to the board, so the design front-loads the awkward turn where you have spent the mana but not yet built the board it wants. It reads as a mono-blue or tempo finisher that turns a stalled ground into lethal in one swing. In practice it lands closer to a win-more enabler than an engine: spectacular when you are already ahead, dead weight when you are not, and asking too high a price for the privilege of being either.