More crucially, its in blue
The goal in this matchup is to strip the opponents hand and land one or two of our major threats to apply pressure
In addition to shutting down an opponent's spell, upon being cast, Access Denied's controller creates a number of 1/1 flying Thopter tokens equal to the mana value to the countered spell
The best cards from Zendikar Rising were the cycle of rares like Emeria's Call // Emeria, Shattered Skyclave that all clocked in at seven mana, which generally translated into it defaulting as a land unless you happened to draw it late in a stalled-out game
Especially in terms of the artifacts, many of them are powerful but not overly so, nor do they seem easily shoehorned into a particular existing deck archetype
Total 17 kinds to collect