In the Standard format of Magic: The Gathering, only the latest sets are legal in the format. As such, the format rotates constantly and is consistently shaken up with each new set and rotation each year. Standard has a very big midrange and tempo meta, with tri-color midrange decks dominating. However, blue creatures often see play in the current Standard in their own mono-colored decks.

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Blue has a wide range of creatures that help support a plethora of strategies ranging from aggro to control. The best blue creatures often have low casting costs, allowing you to save mana for the rest of your spells and get them onto the battlefield early.

8 Stormchaser Drake

Stormchaser Drake is a unique card that slots into very specific decks. Whenever it's targeted by a card, you draw a card. This means it fits in perfectly with Aura decks since they have to target Stormchaser Drake to enter the battlefield. In addition, it's fantastic in a heroic deck, meaning you are casting spells that boost the stats of a creature on that turn.

Stormchaser Drake will draw you a card, allowing you to constantly refill your hand each time you target it. This allows you to work around the downside of playing the decks Stormchaser Drake fits into, as running out of cards is one of the biggest pitfalls, and something Stormchaser Drake prevents.

7 Malevolent Hermit

Malevolent Hermit is constantly in and out of the meta and is a solid choice for control decks. For just two mana, you have access to a permanent counterspell for noncreature spells for just one blue mana. Since there are always a lot of noncreature spells being cast, especially in Standard, having access to a counterspell on a body is fantastic, as it can act as both an attacker and blocker.

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After being used, Malevolent Hermit can be brought back as Benevolent Geist, preventing your own noncreature spells from being countered. This is great for a control mirror match, as it completely shuts down your opponent's ability to counter your spells while you still are able to counter their spells.

6 Lier, Disciple Of The Drowned

Lier, Disciple Of The Drowned is a phenomenal card that sees play in decks that want to cast a lot of spells. As long as it's on the battlefield, all of your instant and sorcery spells have flashbacks, allowing you to use them twice in one turn. When storm decks are playable, you can constantly cast two spells while being mana efficient to ensure you can play your payoffs.

In addition, Lier, Disciple Of The Drowned prevents all spells from being countered. This also protects your opponent's spells, but in a deck where you're not playing counterspells to begin with, this effect does not hurt you at all. It does cost a bit of mana to cast, but once it's on the battlefield, Lier, Disciple Of The Drowned becomes an instant threat with how much recursion it gives you.

5 Ledger Shredder

Ledger Shredder is a fantastic card across multiple formats, and Standard is no exception. Thanks to its stats, it becomes very difficult to remove with burn spells, forcing removal spells that destroy creatures to be used if the opponent wants to get rid of them. Its connive triggers for each player's second spell, allowing it to trigger two times if you have enough instant spells.

Ledger Shredder can very quickly spiral out of control if it is not dealt with. Since it has flying, it becomes even harder to block once its stats start increasing. Though it only starts with one power, in decks that play a lot of spells, that can very easily grow to drastic numbers.

4 Delver Of Secrets

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Delver Of Secrets is a cross-format star. Though it didn't see much play when Innistrad: Midnight Hunt was first introduced to Standard, it has grown to be the cornerstone of one of the top decks in the format. For just one mana, Delver Of Secrets can quickly turn into a 3/2 flyer by simply having an instant or sorcery spell on the top of your deck when you start your upkeep.

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The best decks to take advantage of Delver Of Secrets are ones that play almost exclusively instant and sorcery spells to ensure you have the best odds of flipping Delver Of Secrets. There are many other creatures that take advantage of this, allowing Delver Of Secrets to shine in Standard as one of the best blue creatures in the format.

3 Hullbreaker Horror

Hullbreaker Horror is one of the main win conditions for control decks. Though it costs a hefty seven mana to cast, since it's often played in a control deck, it is fairly easy to survive long enough to cast it. Once Hullbreaker Horror is on the battlefield, it often means you win the game in Standard.

Whenever you cast a spell, it allows you to return either a spell you don't control or a nonland permanent to the hand. For the spell, it acts as a way to essentially counter a non-countable spell by setting the opponent back. For returning a permanent, this can be used both offensively and defensively, keeping your important permanents safe or setting the opponent back on mana by making them cast it again.

2 Tolarian Terror

Tolarian Terror is one of the main creatures in the Mono-Blue Tempo deck, largely thanks to how easy it is to cast for just one mana. Since its casting cost is discounted for each instant and sorcery in your graveyard, so long as you have six, it only costs one blue mana to cast. Even just a few instants or sorceries in the graveyard make it much easier to cast. For a 5/5 to be that cheap mana-wise, it's more than worth building a deck based around it.

Tolarian Terror comes with ward as well, making an already hard creature to remove that much harder. Its stats make it a threat in combat, while the ward keeps it safe from removal.

1 Haughty Djinn

Haughty Djinn is a Standard star, which is the perfect creature and star of Mono-Blue Tempo. Not only does it discount your instant and sorcery spells, but each one in your graveyard also boosts up its power. As if that wasn't enough, Haughty Djinn comes with flying as well along with a solid four toughness, making for a creature that's incredibly hard to deal with by battle.

Often, decks built around Haughty Djinn run protection such as Slip Out The Back and Shore Up, ensuring it stays on the battlefield while also fueling its power.

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