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Vedalken Shacklesutility$6.11Repeatedly steals opposing creatures once you have enough Islands, functioning as a blue long-game control theft engine like Memnarch. It is narrower, but often costs less mana to deploy and activate.Thief of SanityutilityBudget$0.84Provides ongoing card advantage and steals resources from opponents, capturing the blue theft-and-value play pattern. It is more combat-focused and less universal than Memnarch.Control MagicremovalBudget$0.77Classic blue permanent theft that directly answers a creature by taking control of it. It is much cheaper and more efficient, though it only works on creatures and is temporary-enchantment based.PersuasionutilityBudget$0.35A direct creature-steal aura with the same broad blue control feel as Memnarch. It costs less to cast but is limited to creatures and can be answered more easily.Treacheryutility$37.09One of the strongest blue theft effects, stealing a creature while also untapping lands for a large tempo swing. It is more efficient than Memnarch but narrower in scope.Gilded Drakeutility$173.32A highly efficient blue creature-swap effect that can permanently take the best opposing creature. It is much cheaper than Memnarch but only affects creatures and exchanges for your own creature.Rite of ReplicationfinisherBudget$0.36A blue token-copy spell that can dominate the board and often functions as a win condition in the same long-game control space. It does not steal permanents, but it can generate overwhelming advantage at a similar top-end role.Briberyutility$8.96A high-end blue theft-adjacent spell that takes the best creature from an opponent's library and puts it under your control. It shares the big-mana control-finisher role, though it is library-based rather than permanent-based.
