Fortunately, blue has access to a variety of X spells that happily scale to whatever mana you have available to sink
So Mewtwo's moves contradict each other in a way since the first move makes the defending Pokemon fall asleep and then the second move is better if the defending Pokemon has a lot of energy cards on it, if my Pokemon is asleep I wouldn't attach any energy cards to it, so if you put the defending Pokemon asleep right away Psychic will probably only do minimal damage each turn instead of more than 40 each turn
Speaking of counters, I think a certain Winding Constrictor might be willing to help out with that in our current Standard format
It contains everything you can find in the standard Bundle, plus an Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Collector Booster
You already knew I was writing about my top 10 Time Counter cards, and not just from this column's title
Note that if you were to copy the initial cast of Enduring IdealEnduring Ideal (for example, with ReverberateReverberate), you will get two searches every upkeep