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If your rat commander is a rat itself, you can take advantage of Path of Ancestry

Grand Arbiter Augustin IV Grand Arbiter Augustin IV is the textbook definition of stax in blue-white shells

Riddleform and Seasoned Hallowblade are solid, and Miscast is essential, but Essence Scatter would probably be better as another bounce spell, Drannith Magistrate might not be necessary (the deck already felt solid against Adventures), and Shell Shield can be a bit clunky and might be better as more copies of Seasoned Hallowblade or Riddleform

Most early counterspells are god because they buy you time in the early game and scale well into the late game, not because you need to stop the specific cards they make early very often

That's a nasty tax if you want to hard cast it