mtg cards like living death | Tempest - Korean Altered Art - Living Death

Most green decks want a steady amount of this effect, and you cant go wrong with Guardian Project

Crew and saddle keyword abilities mean that youre tapping creatures to animate vehicle artifacts and to improve your mounts performance, so youre always turning a bunch of cardboard sideways in these kinds of decks

A four mana counterspell is not a very good control card as it is so hard to do anything else on the turn you play it, often the mana you gain is just recovering the tempo loss from having a four mana counter

however, it also gives us a Black Lotus or a Mox acceleration some amount of the time

I have two main avenues Id like to explore

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to and dealt by those creatures this turn