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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 $4.71.
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 | 446 | 3.8 |
| Modern | 42 | 3 | 347 | 3.3 |
| Premodern | 50 | 4 | 335 | 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: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (14)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (29)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 2 Annul
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.29
16.29 tix
- 1 Chainer's Edict
$0.19
0.04 tix - 1 Dispel
$0.32
0.03 tix
- 4 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.68 tix
- 2 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Rotten Reunion
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Shrivel
$0.09
0.03 tix
- 1 Suffocating Fumes
$0.21
0.03 tix - 1 Thorn of the Black Rose
$0.12
6.55 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Sorceries (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix - 2 Blood Moon
$6.63
1.16 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.51 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix - 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Fury
$0.58
0.70 tix
- 1 Invasive Surgery
$0.19
0.04 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Subtlety
$15.09
8.00 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.35
0.35 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.35
0.35 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (10)
Enchantments (6)
Lands (25)
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.06 0.02 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 1 Hall of Storm Giants$0.44 0.02 tix
- 2 Hallowed Fountain$7.87 0.06 tix
- 4 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 2 Mystic Gate$3.11 0.02 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.39 2.02 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Raugrin Triome$16.38 0.14 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.98 0.18 tix
- 1 Zagoth Triome$24.97 0.06 tix
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
- 1 Fiery Islet$4.36 7.30 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 3 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.39 2.02 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 4 Spirebluff Canal$5.09 0.67 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.98 0.18 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$11.98 0.18 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.51 tix
- 3 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$49.45
18.79 tix
- 1 Fury
$0.58
0.70 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.07
1.17 tix
- 1 Orvar, the All-Form
$2.23
0.30 tix
- 1 Seasoned Pyromancer
$8.57
4.45 tix
- 1 Subtlety
$15.09
8.00 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix - 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.35
0.35 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
- 1 Fiery Islet$4.36 7.30 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 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$35.70 1.66 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.39 2.02 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 4 Spirebluff Canal$5.09 0.67 tix
- 3 Steam Vents$11.98 0.18 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.63
1.16 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.51 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$49.45
18.79 tix
- 1 Fury
$0.58
0.70 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Seasoned Pyromancer
$8.57
4.45 tix
- 1 Subtlety
$15.09
8.00 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse$0.35 0.35 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
- 1 Dragon's Rage Channeler$1.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Ledger Shredder$7.65 0.17 tix
- 1 Seasoned Pyromancer$8.57 4.45 tix
- 1 Ledger Shredder
$7.65
0.17 tix
- 2 Ledger Shredder
$7.65
0.17 tix
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.49
0.04 tix
- 2 Murktide Regent
$7.52
7.55 tix - 1 Dragon's Rage Channeler
$1.33
0.02 tix
- 4 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
$42.56
7.20 tix
Instants (19)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 2 Blood Moon
$6.63
1.16 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.51 tix
- 1 Dress Down$0.37 0.51 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives$4.67 4.74 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 2 Fury
$0.58
0.70 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce$0.23 0.01 tix
- 1 Subtlety$15.09 8.00 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.35
0.35 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.35
0.35 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Sorceries (4)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (2)
Instants (17)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (32)
- 1 Cast Down
$0.34
2.94 tix
- 2 Unexpected Fangs
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Suffocating Fumes
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 4 Snuff Out
$5.64
8.29 tix
- 4 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 3 Consider
$0.26
0.01 tix
- 4 Mental Note
$6.71
19.93 tix
- 4 Spell Pierce
$0.23
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 (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.29
16.29 tix
- 1 Chainer's Edict
$0.19
0.04 tix
- 1 Dispel
$0.32
0.03 tix
- 4 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.68 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 2 Rotten Reunion
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 2 Steel Sabotage
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 1 Suffocating Fumes
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Thorn of the Black Rose
$0.12
6.55 tix
- 1 Unexpected Fangs
$0.22
0.03 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (19)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (24)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Sorceries (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
- 1 Fiery Islet$4.36 7.30 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 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$35.70 1.66 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.39 2.02 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 4 Spirebluff Canal$5.09 0.67 tix
- 3 Steam Vents$11.98 0.18 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.63
1.16 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.51 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$49.45
18.79 tix
- 1 Fury
$0.58
0.70 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Orvar, the All-Form
$2.23
0.30 tix
- 1 Seasoned Pyromancer
$8.57
4.45 tix
- 1 Subtlety
$15.09
8.00 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse$0.35 0.35 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
- 1 Fiery Islet$4.36 7.30 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 3 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.39 2.02 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 4 Spirebluff Canal$5.09 0.67 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.98 0.18 tix
- 2 Steam Vents$11.98 0.18 tix
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 2 Blood Moon
$6.63
1.16 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.51 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Fury
$0.58
0.70 tix
- 1 Invasive Surgery
$0.19
0.04 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Subtlety
$15.09
8.00 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.35
0.35 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.35
0.35 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
