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Counterspell 
Counterspell appeared in 1,745 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: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (28)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (29)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (15)
Lands (23)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (10)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (26)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 2 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.12 tix - 1 Brotherhood's End
$1.08
2.00 tix - 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix - 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 2 Fury
$0.58
0.70 tix - 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Seasoned Pyromancer
$8.51
4.39 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.22
0.02 tix
- 2 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Instants (21)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.12 tix
- 2 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.12 tix
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.50
0.04 tix
- 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 2 Fury
$0.58
0.70 tix
- 1 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.78 tix
- 1 Subtlety
$15.50
8.00 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (9)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (25)
- 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
- 2 Hallowed Fountain$8.13 0.06 tix
- 4 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge$58.35 0.06 tix
- 3 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Raugrin Triome$16.36 0.14 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$10.52 0.61 tix
- 1 Zagoth Triome$24.72 0.03 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Aether Gust
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 2 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.12 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.83 tix
- 2 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.83 tix
- 2 Dovin's Veto
$2.02
0.03 tix - 1 Dovin's Veto
$2.02
0.03 tix
- 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Kaheera, the Orphanguard
$0.84
0.02 tix - 1 Rest in Peace
$0.62
0.22 tix
- 2 Wear/Tear
$1.29
4.72 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (16)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (27)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 2 Annul
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Chainer's Edict
$0.18
0.04 tix - 1 Dispel
$0.33
0.03 tix
- 4 Hydroblast
$1.54
14.25 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 2 Rotten Reunion
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Snuff Out
$5.58
9.34 tix
- 1 Suffocating Fumes
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Thorn of the Black Rose
$0.11
7.40 tix
- 1 Unexpected Fangs
$0.22
0.03 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (28)
- 1 Cast Down
$0.34
2.89 tix
- 2 Unexpected Fangs
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 2 Snuff Out
$5.58
9.34 tix
- 2 Snuff Out
$5.58
9.34 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 3 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 1 Dispel
$0.33
0.03 tix
- 4 Mental Note
$6.71
20.87 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 4 Thought Scour
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 1 Agony Warp
$0.05
0.03 tix
- 4 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
Lands (15)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (28)
Lands (15)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Sorceries (6)
Instants (11)
Enchantments (9)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (25)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 2 Hall of Storm Giants$0.45 0.02 tix
- 2 Hallowed Fountain$8.13 0.06 tix
- 4 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Ketria Triome$17.06 0.15 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.17 1.74 tix
- 3 Mystic Gate$3.17 0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Raffine's Tower$13.83 0.20 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Celestial Purge
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.83 tix
- 1 Crumble to Dust
$0.05
0.03 tix
- 2 Dovin's Veto
$2.02
0.03 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 2 Flame Blitz
$0.10
0.03 tix
- 3 Hallowed Moonlight
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 1 Kaheera, the Orphanguard
$0.84
0.02 tix
- 2 Subtlety
$15.50
8.00 tix
- 1 Supreme Verdict
$1.49
0.10 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 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
- 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Fury
$0.58
0.70 tix
- 2 Orvar, the All-Form
$2.30
0.30 tix
- 1 Seasoned Pyromancer
$8.51
4.39 tix
- 1 Subtlety
$15.50
8.00 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Instants (20)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 3 Blood Moon
$6.67
1.12 tix
- 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.52 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.91 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.57
1.68 tix
- 1 Fury
$0.58
0.70 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.21
0.01 tix
- 2 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.36
0.35 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (10)
Enchantments (6)
Lands (25)
- 1 Castle Vantress$0.33 0.02 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.51 tix
- 1 Hall of Storm Giants$0.45 0.02 tix
- 2 Hallowed Fountain$8.13 0.06 tix
- 4 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Mystic Gate$3.17 0.02 tix
- 1 Mystic Gate$3.17 0.02 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.66 1.86 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$18.83 2.29 tix
- 1 Raugrin Triome$16.36 0.14 tix
- 3 Scalding Tarn$38.91 4.01 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.96 0.20 tix
- 1 Zagoth Triome$24.72 0.03 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Sorceries (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (6)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 7
