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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 | 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: 3 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (11)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (25)
- 1 Castle Ardenvale$0.28 0.02 tix
- 1 Castle Vantress$0.32 0.02 tix
- 1 Celestial Colonnade$0.36 0.02 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.37 2.46 tix
- 2 Glacial Fortress$0.22 0.02 tix
- 1 Hall of Storm Giants$0.45 0.02 tix
- 2 Hallowed Fountain$7.80 0.06 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.64 1.84 tix
- 2 Mystic Gate$2.98 0.02 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$19.01 2.38 tix
- 1 Raugrin Triome$16.41 0.14 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.92 4.30 tix
- 4 Snow-Covered Island$1.02 0.01 tix
- 2 Snow-Covered Plains$0.36 0.01 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Aether Gust
$0.24
0.03 tix - 1 Celestial Purge
$0.27
0.03 tix - 2 Dovin's Veto
$2.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Kaheera, the Orphanguard
$0.75
0.02 tix - 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.41
0.02 tix - 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.96
0.02 tix
- 2 Rest in Peace
$0.61
0.22 tix
- 2 Shark Typhoon
$1.38
0.06 tix - 2 Spreading Seas
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 2 Sunset Revelry
$0.18
0.03 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (18)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (5)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 2 Blue Elemental Blast$1.28 14.21 tix
- 2 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.28
14.21 tix
- 2 Chainer's Edict
$0.19
0.04 tix - 1 Dispel
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Okiba-Gang Shinobi
$1.05
0.03 tix - 2 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.77 tix
- 2 Stormbound Geist
$0.03
0.03 tix
- 1 Suffocating Fumes
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Thorn of the Black Rose
$0.12
6.37 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (6)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (19)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (12)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (25)
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.82 0.02 tix
- 3 Castle Vantress$0.32 0.02 tix
- 1 Celestial Colonnade$0.36 0.02 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.37 2.46 tix
- 1 Hall of Storm Giants$0.45 0.02 tix
- 2 Hallowed Fountain$7.80 0.06 tix
- 3 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.64 1.84 tix
- 4 Mystic Gate$2.98 0.02 tix
- 2 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$19.01 2.38 tix
- 1 Raugrin Triome$16.41 0.14 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.92 4.30 tix
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (18)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (7)
Lands (24)
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.82 0.02 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.37 2.46 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$7.80 0.06 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Ketria Triome$17.28 0.15 tix
- 1 Lonely Sandbar$0.21 0.03 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.64 1.84 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Raugrin Triome$16.41 0.14 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.73 0.14 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.92 4.30 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$12.06 0.20 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$6.36 0.06 tix
- 1 Temple Garden$7.35 0.02 tix
- 2 Windswept Heath$9.73 0.88 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (7)
Lands (24)
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.82 0.02 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.37 2.46 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$7.80 0.06 tix
- 1 Ketria Triome$17.28 0.15 tix
- 1 Lonely Sandbar$0.21 0.03 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.64 1.84 tix
- 1 Raugrin Triome$16.41 0.14 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.73 0.14 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.92 4.30 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Forest$0.81 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.02 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.36 0.01 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$12.06 0.20 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$6.36 0.06 tix
- 1 Temple Garden$7.35 0.02 tix
- 2 Windswept Heath$9.73 0.88 tix
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (7)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (7)
Planeswalkers (13)
Lands (24)
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.82 0.02 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.37 2.46 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Hallowed Fountain$7.80 0.06 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Ketria Triome$17.28 0.15 tix
- 1 Lonely Sandbar$0.21 0.03 tix
- 4 Misty Rainforest$35.64 1.84 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Raugrin Triome$16.41 0.14 tix
- 1 Sacred Foundry$9.73 0.14 tix
- 2 Scalding Tarn$38.92 4.30 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$12.06 0.20 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$6.36 0.06 tix
- 1 Temple Garden$7.35 0.02 tix
- 2 Windswept Heath$9.73 0.88 tix
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (4)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (4)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (11)
Enchantments (5)
Lands (25)
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.82 0.02 tix
- 2 Castle Vantress$0.32 0.02 tix
- 1 Celestial Colonnade$0.36 0.02 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.37 2.46 tix
- 3 Flooded Strand$11.37 2.46 tix
- 1 Glacial Fortress$0.22 0.02 tix
- 2 Glacial Fortress$0.22 0.02 tix
- 1 Hall of Storm Giants$0.45 0.02 tix
- 2 Hallowed Fountain$7.80 0.06 tix
- 4 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.64 1.84 tix
- 2 Mystic Gate$2.98 0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$19.01 2.38 tix
- 1 Raugrin Triome$16.41 0.14 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.92 4.30 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Celestial Purge
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Chalice of the Void
$14.91
3.81 tix - 3 Dovin's Veto
$2.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.77 tix
- 2 Force of Negation
$48.99
19.20 tix
- 1 Fracturing Gust
$1.63
0.02 tix
- 1 Kaheera, the Orphanguard
$0.75
0.02 tix
- 2 Rest in Peace
$0.61
0.22 tix
- 1 Spreading Seas
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 2 Sunset Revelry
$0.18
0.03 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (21)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (17)
Lands (21)
- 1 Ash Barrens$0.19 0.02 tix
- 2 Razortide Bridge$0.24 0.03 tix
- 4 Rustvale Bridge$0.26 0.03 tix
- 2 Seat of the Synod$0.64 1.09 tix
- 4 Silverbluff Bridge$0.27 0.03 tix
- 5 Snow-Covered Island$1.02 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Mountain$0.50 0.01 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Plains$0.36 0.01 tix
- 1 Thriving Isle$0.10 0.01 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (10)
Enchantments (5)
Planeswalkers (6)
Lands (25)
- 1 Castle Vantress$0.32 0.02 tix
- 2 Celestial Colonnade$0.36 0.02 tix
- 1 Field of Ruin$0.20 0.03 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.37 2.46 tix
- 2 Glacial Fortress$0.22 0.02 tix
- 2 Hallowed Fountain$7.80 0.06 tix
- 4 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Ketria Triome$17.28 0.15 tix
- 2 Misty Rainforest$35.64 1.84 tix
- 2 Mystic Gate$2.98 0.02 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$19.01 2.38 tix
- 1 Raugrin Triome$16.41 0.14 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$38.92 4.30 tix
Sideboard
- 2 Aether Gust
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 2 Dovin's Veto
$2.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.66
4.47 tix
- 1 Flusterstorm
$6.42
1.77 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$48.99
19.20 tix
- 1 Fracturing Gust
$1.63
0.02 tix
- 1 Kaheera, the Orphanguard
$0.75
0.02 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 2 Rest in Peace
$0.61
0.22 tix
- 2 Shark Typhoon
$1.38
0.06 tix
- 1 Sunset Revelry
$0.18
0.03 tix
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (4)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (22)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (18)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (7)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
