Cards like Tiana, Natural Talent, and Pepa Madrigal, Sensitive Sister, combined with new songs like Trials and Tribulations on the Amber side, were great incentives to try for the color notorious for its Singers
So if I am playing a mono blue deck, I dont have the best conventional removal available to me but I do have countermagic available to me
Like most commands, you choose two among four effects: If youre in the fighting market, you can fight and get a +1/+1 counter

Abandoned Sarcophagus Anafenza, the Foremost Ancestor's Embrace Archive Haunt Benevolent Geist Blightsteel Colossus Bloodchief Ascension Bloodchief Ascension Bone Rattler (playtest) Brass's Tunnel-Grinder Brinebound Gift Broodrage Mycoid Canonized in Blood Catlike Curiosity Centaur Vinecrasher Chapel Shieldgeist Child of the Volcano Clever Distraction Cloakwood Hermit Compost Corpses of the Lost Countryside Crusher Covetous Geist Crawling Infestation Crawling Sensation Darksteel Colossus Dauthi Voidwalker Dauthi Voidwalker Deep Goblin Skulltaker Dennick, Pious Apparition Departed Soulkeeper Dimir Strandcatcher Disa the Restless Dorothea's Retribution Dread Drogskol Armaments Dryad Militant Duskmantle Guildmage Emrakul, the Aeons Torn Energy Field Enterprising Scallywag Festival of Embers Forbidden Crypt Fraying Sanity Gaea's Will Generous Soul Ghastly Mimicry Ghostly Castigator Guile Gutter Shortcut Hades, Sorcerer of Eld Hook-Haunt Drifter Hostility Katilda's Rising Dawn Kozilek, Butcher of Truth Lanterns' Lift Lazav, Dimir Mastermind Legacy Weapon Leyline of the Void Lorcan, Warlock Collector Luminous Phantom Macabre Reconstruction Magus of the Will Measure of Wickedness Molten Collapse Moonshadow Morning Apparition Necrodominance Nexus of Fate Nihilith Planar Void Profane Memento

Migloz, Maze Crusher BPhillipYork: These abilities just seem too expensive to usually be impactful