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Counterspell 
Counterspell appeared in 1,736 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: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (24)
- 1 Cling to Dust$0.28 0.03 tix
- 1 Go for the Throat
$0.35
0.02 tix - 2 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 2 Sink into Stupor
$5.69
7.90 tix
- 4 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 3 Consider
$0.26
0.01 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 2 Spell Snare
$0.41
0.23 tix
- 1 Drown in the Loch
$1.02
0.03 tix
- 4 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 3 Archmage's Charm
$1.21
0.17 tix
Lands (19)
- 3 Darkslick Shores$1.87 0.02 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 3 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 2 Undercity Sewers$8.85 7.49 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (23)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (14)
Instants (18)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (20)
- 1 Sink into Stupor— —
- 1 Go for the Throat
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Cling to Dust
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 4 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Consider
$0.26
0.01 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 2 Spell Snare
$0.41
0.23 tix
- 1 Drown in the Loch
$1.02
0.03 tix
- 4 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 2 Archmage's Charm
$1.21
0.17 tix
Lands (19)
- 3 Darkslick Shores$1.87 0.02 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Undercity Sewers$8.85 7.49 tix
- 3 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Break the Ice
$0.28
0.06 tix
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix - 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 2 Stern Scolding
$0.30
0.33 tix
- 1 Subtlety
$15.50
8.00 tix
- 1 Toxic Deluge
$3.42
0.06 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (24)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (24)
- 1 Go for the Throat
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 2 Sink into Stupor
$5.69
7.90 tix
- 1 Cling to Dust
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 4 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 3 Consider
$0.26
0.01 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 2 Spell Snare
$0.41
0.23 tix
- 1 Drown in the Loch
$1.02
0.03 tix
- 4 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 3 Archmage's Charm
$1.21
0.17 tix
Lands (19)
- 3 Darkslick Shores$1.87 0.02 tix
- 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
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 2 Undercity Sewers$8.85 7.49 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.07 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (23)
- 1 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 3 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Elegant Parlor$8.14 4.93 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 2 Hallowed Fountain$8.13 0.06 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$9.97 4.14 tix
- 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge$58.35 0.06 tix
- 1 Monumental Henge$0.41 0.02 tix
- 1 Mystic Gate$3.17 0.02 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.71 6.99 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix - 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 2 Drannith Magistrate
$10.08
0.36 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.63
2.27 tix - 1 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
$2.63
0.20 tix
- 1 Supreme Verdict
$1.49
0.10 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix - 1 Wrath of the Skies
$1.95
5.07 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (17)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (26)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
- 2 Annul
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Arms of Hadar
$0.38
7.87 tix
- 1 Drown in Sorrow
$0.18
0.77 tix
- 1 Extract a Confession
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 4 Hydroblast
$1.54
14.25 tix
- 1 Murmuring Mystic
$0.34
0.03 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Rotten Reunion
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Shrivel
$0.09
0.03 tix
- 2 Steel Sabotage
$0.19
0.03 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (13)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (4)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (24)
- 1 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 4 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Elegant Parlor$8.14 4.93 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 2 Hallowed Fountain$8.13 0.06 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$9.97 4.14 tix
- 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge$58.35 0.06 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Mystic Gate$3.17 0.02 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 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 (10)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (23)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (13)
Instants (13)
Artifacts (3)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (22)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 3 Break the Ice
$0.28
0.06 tix
- 4 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Harbinger of the Seas
$1.57
1.10 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Stern Scolding
$0.30
0.33 tix
- 2 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Thoughtseize
$6.48
1.60 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (17)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (13)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (24)
- 1 Feed the Cycle
$0.26
0.03 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 2 Sink into Stupor
$5.69
7.90 tix
- 1 Cling to Dust
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 4 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 2 Consider
$0.26
0.01 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 2 Spell Snare
$0.41
0.23 tix
- 2 Drown in the Loch
$1.02
0.03 tix
- 4 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 2 Archmage's Charm
$1.21
0.17 tix
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (23)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (15)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (24)
- 1 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 4 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Elegant Parlor$8.14 4.93 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 Meticulous Archive$9.97 4.14 tix
- 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge$58.35 0.06 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 2 Mystic Gate$3.17 0.02 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.71 6.99 tix
- 1 Xander's Lounge$13.31 0.09 tix
