Negate

Consider

Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Draw a card.

Insectile Aberration

Delver of Secrets

At the beginning of your upkeep, look at the top card of your library. You may reveal that card. If an instant or sorcery card is revealed this way, transform Delver of Secrets.

Delver of Secrets // Insectile Aberration

Thought Scour

Target player mills two cards.
Draw a card.

Octavia, Living Thesis

This spell costs {8} less to cast if you have eight or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard.
Ward {8}
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, target creature has base power and toughness 8/8 until end of turn.

Stubborn Denial

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {1}.
Ferocious — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, counter that spell instead.

Tale's End

Counter target activated ability, triggered ability, or legendary spell.

Ponder

Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. You may shuffle.
Draw a card.

Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Draw a card.

Counterspell

Merfolk Looter

Engulf the Shore

Return to their owners' hands all creatures with toughness less than or equal to the number of Islands you control.

Jwari Ruins

Jwari Disruption

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins

Slither Blade

Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive

Creatures you control with power or toughness 1 or less can't be blocked.

Spell Pierce

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}.

High Tide

Until end of turn, whenever a player taps an Island for mana, that player adds an additional {U}.

Whelming Wave

Return all creatures to their owners' hands except for Krakens, Leviathans, Octopuses, and Serpents.

Triton Shorestalker

Serum Visions

Defabricate

Choose one —
• Counter target artifact or enchantment spell. If a spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.
• Counter target activated or triggered ability.

Brainstorm

Draw three cards, then put two cards from your hand on top of your library in any order.