pf26
mar
mar
omb
fca
dsc
mb2
pf24
cmm
cmm
dmr
dmr
dmr
scd
30a
30a
gn3
mh2
mh2
sta
sta
cmr
cmr
plst
plst
sld
sld
sld
sld
sld
sld
sld
sld
ss1
a25
mp2
ema
tpr
jvc
vma
me4
purl
dd2
me2
f05
wc02
prm
prm
prm
prm
wc01
wc01
wc01
wc01
7ed
7ed
btd
wc00
g00
brb
mmq
s99
6ed
wc98
tmp
wc97
wc97
5ed
plgm
ptc
ptc
ice
4ed
4bb
pmei
pmei
sum
fbb
3ed
cei
ced
2ed
leb
lea
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 | 618 | 1 |
| Pauper | 53 | 3.9 | 443 | 3.7 |
| Modern | 43 | 3 | 347 | 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: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (18)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 2 Annul
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.29
16.29 tix
- 2 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.29
16.29 tix
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.29
16.29 tix
- 2 Chainer's Edict
$0.19
0.04 tix - 1 Diabolic Edict
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Dispel
$0.32
0.03 tix
- 1 Reaping the Graves
$0.33
0.38 tix - 2 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.46 tix
- 1 Suffocating Fumes
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Unexpected Fangs
$0.22
0.03 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (9)
Enchantments (1)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Sorceries (4)
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (6)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Instants (21)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
- 1 Fiery Islet$4.36 7.30 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 3 Island$0.05 0.01 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
- 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
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix - 1 Blood Moon
$6.63
1.16 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 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 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
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Subtlety
$15.09
8.00 tix
- 2 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.35
0.35 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 5
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 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
- 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
$17.33
0.67 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.07
1.17 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: 2 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (20)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.63
1.16 tix
- 2 Dress Down$0.37 0.51 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.67
4.74 tix
- 2 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
$17.33
0.67 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute$0.42 0.02 tix
- 2 Subtlety
$15.09
8.00 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt
$0.39
0.03 tix - 1 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.35
0.35 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Instants (21)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Instants (21)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 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 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
$17.33
0.67 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.07
1.17 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: 4 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (2)
Instants (19)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (2)
Instants (19)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (24)
Sorceries (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Instants (21)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
- 1 Blood Moon
$6.63
1.16 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 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Fury
$0.58
0.70 tix
- 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
$17.33
0.67 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.07
1.17 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Subtlety
$15.09
8.00 tix
- 2 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.35
0.35 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Instants (21)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Instants (21)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (18)
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 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.78 tix
- 1 Fury
$0.58
0.70 tix
- 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
$17.33
0.67 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.07
1.17 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 1 Subtlety
$15.09
8.00 tix
- 1 Tormod's Crypt$0.39 0.03 tix
- 2 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.35
0.35 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (10)
Enchantments (4)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (25)
- 2 Castle Vantress$0.32 0.02 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 1 Glacial Fortress$0.24 0.02 tix
- 2 Hall of Storm Giants$0.44 0.02 tix
- 2 Hallowed Fountain$7.87 0.06 tix
- 3 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 3 Mystic Gate$3.11 0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$19.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Raugrin Triome$16.38 0.14 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 1 Spara's Headquarters$13.61 0.26 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$11.98 0.18 tix
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Instants (21)
- 1 Spell Pierce$0.23 0.01 tix
- 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.83
0.02 tix
- 3 Lightning Bolt
$0.83
0.02 tix
- 4 Unholy Heat
$0.29
0.01 tix
- 4 Consider
$0.26
0.01 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.23
0.01 tix
- 1 Spell Snare
$0.36
0.24 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 2 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 2 Archmage's Charm
$1.10
0.23 tix
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (1)
Lands (19)
- 1 Fiery Islet$4.36 7.30 tix
- 1 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
- 2 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 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 Fury
$0.58
0.70 tix
- 1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
$17.33
0.67 tix
- 1 Magus of the Moon
$4.07
1.17 tix
- 2 Mystical Dispute
$0.42
0.02 tix
- 2 Subtlety
$15.09
8.00 tix
- 2 Unlicensed Hearse
$0.35
0.35 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (15)
Instants (17)
Enchantments (6)
Lands (27)
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.36 2.56 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.41 2.00 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.70 1.66 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.09 0.01 tix
- 4 Prismatic Vista$25.85 2.98 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.56 3.92 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Forest$0.80 0.01 tix
- 5 Snow-Covered Island$1.03 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Mountain$0.50 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.36 0.01 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.60 tix
- 1 Tundra$278.32 13.07 tix
- 1 Volcanic Island$305.76 15.31 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
