Vedalken Anatomist

"Vedalken Anatomist" is a card from the "Mirrodin Besieged" set.  This card is one that is highly underestimated for blue, it is a 1/2 for 3 mana but with a highly valuable power.  Pay 3 mana tap the creature and put a -1/-1 counter on target creature, and you may tap or untap that creature.  So you get to put a -1/-1 counter on a target creature for 3 mana and with the amount of proliferate cards in blue you can easily kill those creatures no problem.  Even better during your opponents turn you can activate this ability and tap the target creature preventing it from attacking you, this is a perfect card for a control deck.  The only fall back is that paying 3 mana every turn can be costly especially in a straight blue deck, unless you have a lot of draw spells or scry card in the deck.  But even then it will take too many turns to build up.    

Great for blue control decks and proliferate decks.

Good:

-A low mana costing creature with a repeatable control ability of giving -1/-1 counters and taping or untaping creatures.

-With the proper blue deck this cards can easily control you opponents field with ease

Bad:

-Cost 3 mana to use this cards ability each turn, which over time hiders your ability to cast more spells during your turn.  

Scully Rating: 8.5 out of 10