Cunning Rhetoric Cunning Rhetoric doesnt guarantee card draw, but if you arent drawing cards, it means that the threat of card advantage has deterred your opponents from attacking you
For more competitive players with a deck build in mind, it probably does make a bit more sense to try buying or trading for individual cards to complete decks, with the odd pack here and there to perhaps point you in a new direction for a new deck.
The phases are named as follows: Refresh Phase Draw Phase DON
While there are other worthy contenders such as Blue Elemental Blast and even the recent Mystical Dispute that costs only 1 Blue Mana , Counterspell offers blanket protection for 2 Blue Mana
The first time you cycle each turn, you could receive a 2/2 red and white Dinosaur Cat creature token and 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature token with flying
Monoblue decks ditched Jayemdae Tome completely once this bad boy came around, and started moving towards Man-o'-War and Boomerang-style board control to set up enough time for the Ophidian to give them a hand full of cards
