A killer in this is Innistrad: Crimson Vow's Hullbreaker Horror , who can either soft-counter a spell or return a non-land permanent to its controller's hand whenever you cast any spell
Even the most passive blue control decks wont find it that hard to include some cheap blockers or one-mana utility creatures
any object referred to by an object on the stack, by a replacement or prevention effect thats waiting to apply, or by a delayed triggered ability thats waiting to trigger
Incineroar ex provides passive damage and counters cards like Pom-Pom Oricorio
But, if you can, what you want is something (in your "creature row," not your "spell row") that looks roughly like this: 1+ mana: 02 2+ mana: 46 3+ mana: 35 4+ mana: 24 5+ mana 13 6+ mana: 02 Or, in graphic form, like this: Astute readers out there might notice these numbers are slightly different than my normal Prerelease primer numbers