Nezahal, Primal Tide
Most blue control finishers want a quiet board to land safely; this one is built to thrive in the exact opposite environment. The draw trigger fires off opponents' noncreature spells, which means the more interaction and removal pointed your way, the faster your hand swells past the no-maximum clause that lets it keep everything. Counterspells don't stop the body from resolving, and the discard-three protection ability turns the usual control-mirror tools (exile-based removal, sweepers, sacrifice edicts) into temporary inconveniences: pay the cards, blink it out, and let it slip back to the battlefield having dodged whatever was aimed at it. The design logic is a feedback loop. A 7/7 that closes games on its own is the floor; the ceiling is an opponent who must choose between casting spells that feed you cards and sitting on their hands while seven power connects. The discard cost is the throttle. The protection is real but finite, gated by how many cards you can afford to pitch, and a board that empties your hand leaves the next exile-blink out of reach. This is the self-sufficient blue bomb taken to its logical end: a threat that asks the opponent to play around it rather than the other way around, with the wrinkle that both its protection and its card advantage scale directly off the opponent's own game plan.
