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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: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (2)
Instants (13)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (24)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix - 2 Blood Moon
$6.63
1.16 tix - 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.51 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix - 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$49.45
18.79 tix
- 1 Fury
$0.58
0.70 tix - 1 Minor Misstep
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Seasoned Pyromancer
$8.57
4.45 tix
- 1 Surgical Extraction
$1.31
5.50 tix - 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.35
0.35 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (20)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.63
1.16 tix
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.63
1.16 tix
- 1 Brotherhood's End
$1.10
1.94 tix
- 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.51 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$49.45
18.79 tix
- 1 Invasive Surgery
$0.19
0.04 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Subtlety
$15.09
8.00 tix
- 2 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.35
0.35 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (12)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Sorceries (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
Sorceries (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (27)
- 1 Cast Down
$0.34
2.94 tix - 3 Unexpected Fangs
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 1 Recoil
$0.16
0.04 tix
- 4 Snuff Out
$5.64
8.29 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 3 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.85 tix
- 4 Mental Note
$6.71
19.93 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.23
0.01 tix
- 4 Thought Scour
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 2 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 2 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (12)
Instants (15)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (26)
Sorceries (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (5)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (24)
- 2 Boseiju, Who Endures$49.11 9.33 tix
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.06 0.02 tix
- 2 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 1 Forgotten Cave$0.12 0.03 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 1 Raugrin Triome$16.38 0.14 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.91 0.17 tix
- 1 Savai Triome$20.45 0.11 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.36 0.01 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.98 0.18 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$6.68 0.02 tix
- 1 Temple Garden$7.39 0.02 tix
- 4 Windswept Heath$10.13 0.86 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$17.02 2.44 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.49 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Ephemerate
$4.20
1.91 tix - 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 2 Force of Vigor
$4.23
3.00 tix - 1 Fury
$0.58
0.70 tix
- 1 Obsidian Charmaw
$1.59
2.12 tix
- 2 Orvar, the All-Form
$2.23
0.30 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.23
0.01 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.17
0.02 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Sorceries (8)
Instants (8)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (25)
- 1 Arid Mesa$29.61 3.61 tix
- 1 Castle Vantress$0.32 0.02 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 1 Geier Reach Sanitarium$1.44 0.02 tix
- 1 Hall of Storm Giants$0.44 0.02 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$7.87 0.06 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$7.87 0.06 tix
- 3 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 1 Mystic Gate$3.11 0.02 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 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
Sideboard
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.63
1.16 tix
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.63
1.16 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.49 tix
- 1 Dovin's Veto
$1.96
0.03 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 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 2 Hallowed Moonlight
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 1 Kaheera, the Orphanguard
$0.80
0.02 tix - 1 March of Otherworldly Light
$0.84
2.16 tix
- 1 Supreme Verdict
$1.48
0.10 tix
- 1 Temporary Lockdown
$0.32
0.20 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (15)
Artifacts (11)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Sorceries (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (13)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (25)
Sorceries (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Azure Fleet Admiral
$0.20
3.07 tix
- 1 Bonesplitter
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 2 Boomerang
$0.09
0.03 tix
- 2 Gut Shot
$4.70
0.03 tix - 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.68 tix
- 3 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.68 tix
- 1 Moonblade Shinobi
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.46 tix
- 1 Serrated Arrows
$0.31
0.03 tix - 1 Spire Golem
$0.14
0.03 tix - 1 Viridian Longbow
$0.56
0.03 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Instants (20)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.63
1.16 tix
- 1 Brazen Borrower
$0.49
0.04 tix
- 1 Dress Down
$0.37
0.51 tix
- 3 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Fury$0.58 0.70 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.07
1.17 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Seasoned Pyromancer
$8.57
4.45 tix
- 1 Subtlety
$15.09
8.00 tix
- 2 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.35
0.35 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
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: 1 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 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 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: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.51 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$49.45
18.79 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$49.45
18.79 tix
- 1 Fury
$0.58
0.70 tix
- 2 Seasoned Pyromancer
$8.57
4.45 tix
- 2 Subtlety
$15.09
8.00 tix
- 2 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.35
0.35 tix
