Bident of ThassautilityBudget$0.40Provides a comparable blue combat-evasion payoff by rewarding you for attacking and helping push through damage, though it does so by drawing cards instead of granting unblockable to countered creatures.
Thassa, God of the SeautilityBudget$3.11A blue evasive enabler that makes key creatures harder to block through repeatable scry and unblockable targeting, offering a similar way to force damage through.
Aqueous FormutilityBudget$0.40Cheap blue evasion for a creature, making it effectively unblockable and improving combat pressure much like Herald’s board-wide evasion payoff.
Distortion StrikeutilityBudget$0.50A low-cost blue spell that grants unblockable-style pressure for a turn, similar to Herald’s goal of connecting with combat damage.
Invisible StalkerutilityBudget$1.04A classic blue evasive threat that effectively cannot be blocked, filling a similar role of ensuring combat damage gets through.
Slither BladeutilityBudget$0.41Another efficient blue creature with built-in unblockability, useful when you want creatures to reliably connect with buffs or counter synergies.
Tetsuko Umezawa, FugitiveutilityBudget$0.13Grants evasion to small creatures and counter-based decks often include small utility bodies, making it a strong functional cousin for forcing damage through.
Whispersilk CloakprotectionBudget$2.74A colorless way to make a creature unblockable, serving the same battlefield purpose of converting board presence into guaranteed damage.