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Repulse: needed, but much more costly than it's better cousin Void Snare

Essentially they are half the cost to cycle with all the other functionality the same

That is way too late, unless almost every card in your deck is a counterspell and/or some time of target damage card

You need more means of exiling your cards than Ashiok alone to win with it, but it gets there

Looking for a hydra to build around, or some good beefy creatures to include in your decks

It just shouldnt be the upper ceiling of what your card can do: having your worst scenario be Cancel is perfectly manageable, given a sufficiently attractive best case