Brainstorm Ponder Expressive Iteration Fevered Visions Jori En, Ruin Diver Rielle, the Everwise Firemind's Research Yusri, Fortune's Flame Jhoira, Weatherlight Captian Kraum, Ludevic's Opus Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind The Royal Scions Ral, Izzet Viceroy Squee's Revenge Aegar, the Freezing Flame Rhystic Study Counterspells with a hint of Redirection It's not blue without a counterspell or two
I mean, on his own he is effectively a 3-mana 3/3 in most cases, and youll often have other creatures on which you can use the ability that might have more of an impact
The Ring is also quite useful even without all its abilities, although admittedly its true impact will also have a lot to do with who is carrying it
What I normally would do before posting or accepting a trade is going into the trades wall, checking what users are asking, and giving in exchange for a card to get an idea
Its a strange feeling to be a deck of only Mountains thats incredibly bad against Blood Moon, but if one sticks without an immediate answer or a token already in play youre basically dead