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Blind Obedienceutility$5.34It taxes opposing artifacts and creatures while also giving you a white-black style tempo advantage through extort. Like Revenant Patriarch, it can blunt combat-focused decks, especially when you want to slow attackers rather than remove them outright.Authority of the Consulsutility$5.37This is a cheaper white-based way to disrupt combat by making opposing creatures enter tapped and gaining life. It serves a similar role of delaying an opponent's attack step without needing to be a creature.Ghostly Prisonprotection$6.46A classic combat deterrent that makes attacking you costly, which often functions like skipping a combat step in practice. It is a strong white defensive equivalent for stopping aggression.Norn's Annexprotection$6.48This taxes attackers heavily unless they pay life or white mana, making combat much harder to execute. It fills a similar anti-combat, stall-the-board role in white-black decks.Kambal, Consul of Allocationutility$7.40While not a combat lock, it punishes opponents for playing noncreature spells and stabilizes your life total in Orzhov shells. It fits the same attrition-oriented slot as a midgame black-white Spirit that discourages pressure.Archon of Absolutionprotection$0.16This flying threat taxes attacks against you and planeswalkers, directly interfering with combat pressure. It is a close white defensive analogue that also functions as an evasive creature.Hissing Miasmaprotection$3.40It punishes creatures that attack you, discouraging combat and buying time much like a one-shot combat skip effect. The difference is that it works repeatedly as a battlefield tax.No Mercyprotection$19.12This is a strong black answer to combat decks, destroying creatures that deal damage to you. It does not skip combat, but it creates a similar deterrent to attacking you at all.
