Basically, relying on countermagic for protection usually means you are two turns slower to safely go off
The Best Rare Soldier Imagine any card you have on the battlefield, or your opponents have on the battlefield
Most decks play creatures and most of them are pretty good so you will be happy to be drawing this even though so many monsters will net some advantage for the caster without ever getting to combat
Grim Monolith is a two-mana Artifact that can be tapped to add three colorless mana, but it doesn't untap during your untap step and instead you must pay four mana to untap it manually
Consisting of Ancestral Recall, Black Lotus, the Moxes, Timetwister and Time Walk, the Power Nine are some of the most powerful cards in all of MTG so powerful, in fact, that they were removed from the Revised printing after the release of Unlimited Edition
I wish there was some sort of ETB associated with it so you got some permanent value, though