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Thalia, Guardian of ThrabenutilityBudget$0.39Shares the disruptive white tax/stax role and is also a cheap legendary Human Soldier. It slows opponents in a different way by making noncreature spells cost more.Archon of Emeriautility$2.67A very close white hatebear that slows opponents’ development by restricting spell sequencing and nonbasic land usage. It fills the same disruptive board-control role in white creature decks.Aven MindcensorutilityBudget$0.60Another efficient disruptive creature that punishes fetching and searching, fitting white tempo/stax shells. Like Thalia, Heretic Cathar, it interferes with how opponents deploy resources on the battlefield.Eidolon of RhetoricutilityBudget$0.44A classic white stax creature that limits opponents’ ability to chain spells, serving the same “slow the table down” function. It is slightly more restrictive in a different axis than entering tapped, but occupies a similar deck slot.Loxodon Gatekeeperutility$1.85This is one of the closest functional analogs, making creatures and lands your opponents control enter tapped. It has a different body and mana cost, but the battlefield-tempo effect is very similar.Blind Obedienceutility$5.34Provides the same tapped-entry pressure on artifacts and creatures through extort-friendly white stax play. It is an enchantment instead of a creature, but it supports the same tempo-denial plan.Authority of the Consulsutility$5.37A cheaper enchantment that makes opponents’ creatures enter tapped and adds incidental life gain. It is a budget-friendly way to mimic part of Thalia, Heretic Cathar’s battlefield disruption.Grand Arbiter Augustin IVutility$16.55A stronger, broader white-based tax effect that functions as a premium stax piece. It doesn’t tap lands directly, but it plays the same role of constraining opposing development.
