Grazilaxx, Illithid Scholar

Grazilaxx rewards you for swinging with creatures and sneaking damage through—you get a card draw whenever your creatures deal combat damage, and you can bounce blockers back to your hand before they even trade. This opens up a tempo-focused strategy where you're constantly rebounding evasive creatures or creatures with enter-the-battlefield effects, turning combat into a card advantage engine. Think of it as Blue's answer to aggressive decks: you're not trying to go wide or play a traditional control shell, but rather playing cheap, evasive threats that slip through defenses and generate value on the way.

The deck builds around flyers and unblockable creatures paired with effects that trigger when they ETB, so you're getting double value: damage triggers your draw, and returning creatures to hand resets ETB triggers for future plays. Cards like Curious Pair, Cloud of Faeries, and Soulstinger let you flicker value while Grazilaxx bounces them back for more. You can lean into tempo with counterspells and cantrips to protect your threats, or go all-in on evasion and card draw to outpace opponents.

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