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Counterspell 
Counterspell appeared in 1,738 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 | 609 | 1 |
| Pauper | 54 | 3.9 | 440 | 3.7 |
| Modern | 42 | 3 | 347 | 3.3 |
| Premodern | 49 | 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: 4 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Sorceries (13)
Instants (6)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (23)
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.22 0.02 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium$1.52 0.02 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$8.13 0.06 tix
- 1 Hedge Maze$10.72 1.75 tix
- 3 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Meticulous Archive$9.97 4.14 tix
- 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge$58.35 0.06 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 3 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Raugrin Triome$16.36 0.14 tix
- 2 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
- 1 Zagoth Triome$24.72 0.03 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Aether Gust
$0.24
0.03 tix - 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Day's Undoing
$1.56
0.67 tix - 2 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Invert Polarity
$0.38
0.02 tix - 1 Kaheera, the Orphanguard
$0.84
0.02 tix - 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.97
0.02 tix
- 1 Subtlety
$15.50
8.00 tix
- 1 Supreme Verdict
$1.49
0.10 tix - 1 Wrath of the Skies
$1.95
5.07 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (22)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (16)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (18)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (22)
- 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
- 1 Mystic Gate$3.17 0.02 tix
- 1 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
- 2 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Commandeer
$2.56
0.11 tix - 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 2 Drannith Magistrate
$10.08
0.36 tix
- 1 Invert Polarity
$0.38
0.02 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
$2.63
0.20 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 2 Supreme Verdict
$1.49
0.10 tix
- 1 Wrath of the Skies
$1.95
5.07 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (2)
Instants (22)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (14)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (28)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (22)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (3)
Lands (18)
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 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
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 3 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 tix
- 3 Spirebluff Canal$5.08 0.62 tix
- 3 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.71 6.99 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.12 tix
- 1 Brotherhood's End
$1.08
2.00 tix
- 1 Cast into the Fire
$0.71
0.34 tix
- 4 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 2 Stern Scolding
$0.30
0.33 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix - 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (1)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (22)
- 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 Monumental Henge$0.41 0.02 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mystic Gate$3.17 0.02 tix
- 1 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
- 2 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 2 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 2 Drannith Magistrate
$10.08
0.36 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Invert Polarity
$0.38
0.02 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 3 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.63
2.27 tix - 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Subtlety
$15.50
8.00 tix
- 1 Wrath of the Skies
$1.95
5.07 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (24)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (20)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (1)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (22)
- 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 Monumental Henge$0.41 0.02 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mystic Gate$3.17 0.02 tix
- 1 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
- 2 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 2 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 2 Drannith Magistrate
$10.08
0.36 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Invert Polarity
$0.38
0.02 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 3 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.63
2.27 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Subtlety
$15.50
8.00 tix
- 1 Wrath of the Skies
$1.95
5.07 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Annul
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.12 tix
- 1 Brotherhood's End
$1.08
2.00 tix
- 1 Cast into the Fire
$0.71
0.34 tix
- 1 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 3 Harsh Mentor
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.19
1.24 tix
- 2 Stern Scolding
$0.30
0.33 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.33
5.76 tix
- 1 Tishana's Tidebinder
$2.28
0.68 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (18)
Lands (22)
- 2 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 2 Hallowed Fountain$8.13 0.06 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Meticulous Archive$9.97 4.14 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 4 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 2 Spirebluff Canal$5.08 0.62 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.71 6.99 tix
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (22)
- 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 Monumental Henge$0.41 0.02 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mystic Gate$3.17 0.02 tix
- 1 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
- 2 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Commandeer
$2.56
0.11 tix
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 1 Invert Polarity
$0.38
0.02 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 3 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.63
2.27 tix
- 1 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
$2.63
0.20 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Supreme Verdict
$1.49
0.10 tix
- 1 Wrath of the Skies
$1.95
5.07 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (4)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (23)
- 2 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 2 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Cascade Bluffs$0.32 0.03 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
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Meticulous Archive$9.97 4.14 tix
- 1 Mystic Gate$3.17 0.02 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Spara's Headquarters$13.76 0.26 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.71 6.99 tix
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (21)
- 2 Arena of Glory$7.17 0.55 tix
- 1 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Arid Mesa$30.11 3.21 tix
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.22 0.02 tix
- 2 Cascade Bluffs$0.32 0.03 tix
- 1 Commercial District$6.88 1.18 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 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.69 0.14 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Thundering Falls$14.71 6.99 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 2 Drannith Magistrate
$10.08
0.36 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$50.33
18.75 tix
- 1 Leyline Binding
$0.41
0.79 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
$2.63
0.20 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Spell Snare
$0.41
0.23 tix
- 2 The Stone Brain
$0.46
1.22 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (22)
- 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 Monumental Henge$0.41 0.02 tix
- 1 Mountain$0.06 0.01 tix
- 1 Mystic Gate$3.17 0.02 tix
- 1 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
- 2 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Commandeer
$2.56
0.11 tix
- 3 Consign to Memory
$3.30
31.13 tix
- 3 Drannith Magistrate
$10.08
0.36 tix
- 1 Invert Polarity
$0.38
0.02 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Phlage, Titan of Fire's Fury
$2.63
0.20 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 1 Supreme Verdict
$1.49
0.10 tix
- 1 Wrath of the Skies
$1.95
5.07 tix
