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Counterspell 
Counterspell appeared in 1,735 MTGO Challenge Top-8 decks over the past 12 months, averaging 2.7 copies per deck. Its current TCGplayer price is $4.62.
Oracle Text
Format Legality
Competitive Play by Format
Top 8 decklists that played Counterspell, by format.
| Format | Decks 30d | Avg 30d | Decks 12mo | Avg 12mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duel Commander | 12 | 1 | 612 | 1 |
| Pauper | 54 | 3.9 | 444 | 3.7 |
| Modern | 43 | 3 | 347 | 3.3 |
| Premodern | 52 | 4 | 337 | 3.9 |
| Legacy | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2.2 |
Details
- Set
- MagicFest 2026
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 2
- Collector #
- 5
Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Counterspell
Final: 1 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (9)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (24)
- 1 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 4 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$8.13 0.06 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Ketria Triome$17.06 0.15 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$9.97 4.14 tix
- 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge$58.35 0.06 tix
- 1 Mystic Gate$3.17 0.02 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Raffine's Tower$13.83 0.20 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.71 6.99 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (24)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (28)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (23)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (22)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Instants (22)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (24)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (23)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Instants (22)
Lands (19)
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$8.85 7.49 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$8.85 7.49 tix
- 3 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (27)
Artifacts (8)
Planeswalkers (1)
Sideboard
- 2 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix - 1 Gigadrowse
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 3 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 2 Into the Flood Maw
$2.43
9.92 tix
- 1 Stern Scolding
$0.30
0.33 tix
- 1 Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
$0.95
0.02 tix - 3 Unable to Scream
$0.27
0.03 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (30)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (9)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (24)
- 1 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 4 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$8.13 0.06 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Ketria Triome$17.06 0.15 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$9.97 4.14 tix
- 1 Mystic Gate$3.17 0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Raffine's Tower$13.83 0.20 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.71 6.99 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (24)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (24)
- 1 Shoot the Sheriff
$0.48
0.53 tix - 2 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Sink into Stupor
$5.69
7.90 tix
- 4 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix - 3 Consider
$0.26
0.01 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 2 Spell Snare
$0.41
0.23 tix
- 4 Thought Scour
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 4 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 2 Break the Ice
$0.28
0.06 tix
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Damping Sphere
$1.11
1.12 tix
- 1 Ghost Vacuum
$3.76
0.84 tix
- 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
$17.07
0.66 tix
- 1 Siphon Insight
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 2 Subtlety
$15.50
8.00 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 The Meathook Massacre
$25.60
2.85 tix - 1 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Instants (22)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (21)
Lands (19)
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.50 tix
- 2 Darkslick Shores$1.87 0.02 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 2 Gloomlake Verge$10.41 0.26 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Undercity Sewers$8.85 7.49 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 4 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Damping Sphere
$1.11
1.12 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Ghost Vacuum
$3.76
0.84 tix
- 1 Glistening Deluge
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 2 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 2 Stern Scolding
$0.30
0.33 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (23)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 3 Break the Ice
$0.28
0.06 tix
- 1 Commandeer
$2.56
0.11 tix - 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Ghost Vacuum
$3.76
0.84 tix
- 1 Siphon Insight
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 2 Subtlety
$15.50
8.00 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 The Meathook Massacre
$25.60
2.85 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (29)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (22)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (22)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plateau$200.00 3.13 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 3 Tundra$278.32 12.73 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.09 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.87 tix
- 4 Wasteland$8.56 0.02 tix
