Turns your Cancels into Counterspells, and your opponent's Counterspells into jokes.

  -- By Anonymous from IL on May 27, 2011

One of my All-Time Favorite EDH Generals, aside of Saffi Eriksdotter or Captain Sisay.

  -- By Jay from Minneapolis, MN USA on June 01, 2010

Simply a must for any blue/white control deck! Time Walk & Arcane Denial are 1-drops & Baneslayer is 4! Think about it!

  -- By ferrioso from Sioux Falls, SD on August 03, 2009

heheh, turn 2 coiling oracle, turn 3 Arbiter, and from there, all of your spells are veeery low-costing. mana drain once costs one mana now! which is great, since your opponent's spells are cost more now xD. some people say he dies too easily, i say he doesn't~ that's what counterspells are for, right?!

  -- By greg from here on November 05, 2008

Play him on turn 4... pop out your sky hussars & winderavers for 3 land each and watch your opponents plans crumble ...

  -- By Regi from Suva, Fiji on February 04, 2008

lousy effects and very, very, very lousy appearance!

  -- By Nakamura Hamato from Hiroshima, Japan on June 28, 2006

Just... brutal. The Arbiter makes everything go slower for your opponents while making the already low-cost Azorius spells that much faster. And for a measly 2WU, he's on the field early enough to make a difference. I'm honestly not sure which is scarier, this dude, or the Avatar of Discord.

  -- By A Simic Guildmage from Novijen on May 06, 2006