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Counterspell 
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 | 617 | 1 |
| Pauper | 54 | 3.9 | 444 | 3.7 |
| Modern | 42 | 3 | 346 | 3.3 |
| Premodern | 49 | 4 | 332 | 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: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (19)
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
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix - 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Fury
$0.58
0.70 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: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
- 1 Fiery Islet$4.36 7.30 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.39 2.02 tix
- 2 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 3 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 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 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 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Fury
$0.58
0.70 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.46 tix
- 2 Subtlety
$15.09
8.00 tix
- 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.35
0.35 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (16)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (2)
Instants (33)
- 4 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
- 4 Consider
$0.26
0.01 tix
- 4 Mental Note
$6.71
19.93 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.23
0.01 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.23
0.01 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.23
0.01 tix
- 2 Thought Scour
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 2 Thought Scour
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 3 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
Lands (17)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Alpine Moon
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.63
1.16 tix
- 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.51 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Fury
$0.58
0.70 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: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (5)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (22)
- 1 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 Ketria Triome$17.00 0.18 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 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
- 1 Boseiju, Who Endures$49.11 9.33 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 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 Orvar, the All-Form
$2.23
0.30 tix
- 2 Orvar, the All-Form
$2.23
0.30 tix
- 2 Spell Pierce
$0.23
0.01 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.23
0.01 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.17
0.02 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Instants (20)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Alpine Moon
$0.25
0.02 tix
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.63
1.16 tix
- 2 Dress Down
$0.37
0.51 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Fury
$0.58
0.70 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: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (13)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (1)
Instants (21)
- 2 Moment's Peace
$2.17
7.48 tix
- 1 Weather the Storm
$1.12
1.38 tix
- 4 Impulse
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Prohibit
$0.14
0.03 tix
- 1 Destroy Evil
$0.24
0.03 tix - 2 Pulse of Murasa
$0.12
0.03 tix
- 2 Ghostly Flicker
$1.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Unwind
$0.97
0.03 tix
- 1 Behold the Multiverse
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 3 Mystical Teachings
$0.11
0.02 tix
- 1 Crop Rotation
$3.51
2.12 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Ephemerate
$4.20
1.91 tix
Artifacts (8)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (25)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.29
16.29 tix
- 3 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.29
16.29 tix
- 1 Chainer's Edict
$0.19
0.04 tix
- 1 Dispel
$0.32
0.03 tix
- 2 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 2 Rotten Reunion
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Shrivel
$0.09
0.03 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.23
0.01 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: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (16)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 Curfew
$0.32
0.10 tix
- 1 Electrickery
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Fathom Seer
$0.05
0.03 tix
- 1 Fiery Cannonade
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Gorilla Shaman
$0.21
0.24 tix
- 3 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.68 tix
- 1 Moonblade Shinobi
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 3 Shattering Blow
$0.18
0.03 tix - 1 Underworld Rage-Hound
$0.16
0.03 tix
Final: 2 | 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
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 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
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 3 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 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
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 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
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Fury
$0.58
0.70 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.35
0.35 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Sorceries (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (16)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 Azure Fleet Admiral
$0.20
3.07 tix
- 1 Chainer's Edict
$0.19
0.04 tix
- 1 Dispel
$0.32
0.03 tix
- 1 Exclude
$0.16
0.03 tix
- 1 Fathom Seer
$0.05
0.03 tix
- 3 Hydroblast
$1.54
15.68 tix
- 1 Moonblade Shinobi
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 2 Mukotai Ambusher
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Okiba-Gang Shinobi
$1.05
0.03 tix
- 1 Suffocating Fumes
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Unexpected Fangs
$0.22
0.03 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.63
1.16 tix
- 2 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 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Fury
$0.58
0.70 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: 3 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (6)
Enchantments (6)
Lands (24)
- 2 Boseiju, Who Endures$49.11 9.33 tix
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.06 0.02 tix
- 3 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$7.87 0.06 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 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 Zagoth Triome$24.97 0.06 tix
