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mh2
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sta
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mp2
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wc01
wc01
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7ed
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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 | 52 | 3.9 | 442 | 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: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (20)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (16)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 2 Chainer's Edict
$0.19
0.04 tix - 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
14.07 tix
- 2 Negate
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Okiba-Gang Shinobi
$1.05
0.03 tix - 1 Reaping the Graves
$0.33
0.35 tix - 1 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.77 tix
- 2 Stormbound Geist
$0.03
0.03 tix
- 2 Suffocating Fumes
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Thorn of the Black Rose
$0.12
6.37 tix
- 1 Unexpected Fangs
$0.21
0.03 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (21)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (15)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 Agony Warp
$0.05
0.03 tix
- 1 Chainer's Edict
$0.19
0.04 tix
- 1 Devour Flesh
$0.09
0.03 tix
- 2 Dispel
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
14.07 tix
- 1 Okiba-Gang Shinobi
$1.05
0.03 tix
- 1 Reaping the Graves
$0.33
0.35 tix
- 2 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.77 tix
- 2 Rhystic Study
$53.77
4.63 tix
- 1 Suffocating Fumes
$0.21
0.03 tix
Final: 2 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (18)
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix - 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 4 Frantic Inventory
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Electrickery
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 1 Lightning Bolt
$0.80
0.02 tix
- 4 Skred
$1.86
4.38 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.99 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.99 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 2 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.28
14.21 tix
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.28
14.21 tix
- 1 Bonder's Ornament
$0.23
3.31 tix
- 3 Curfew
$0.33
0.10 tix
- 1 Electrickery
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 1 Fiery Cannonade
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 3 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
15.69 tix
- 1 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.77 tix
- 1 Shenanigans
$0.20
0.03 tix
- 1 Stormbound Geist
$0.03
0.03 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (16)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Sorceries (8)
Instants (19)
Enchantments (8)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (4)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Instants (16)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (18)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 2 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.28
14.21 tix
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast$1.28 14.21 tix
- 2 Chainer's Edict
$0.19
0.04 tix
- 2 Negate
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Okiba-Gang Shinobi
$1.05
0.03 tix
- 1 Reaping the Graves
$0.33
0.35 tix
- 1 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.77 tix
- 1 Stormbound Geist
$0.03
0.03 tix
- 2 Suffocating Fumes
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Thorn of the Black Rose
$0.12
6.37 tix
- 1 Unexpected Fangs
$0.21
0.03 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Instants (16)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 Chainer's Edict
$0.19
0.04 tix
- 1 Devour Flesh
$0.09
0.03 tix
- 1 Dispel
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 1 Duress
$0.08
0.01 tix
- 1 Duress
$0.08
0.01 tix
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
14.07 tix
- 1 Negate
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Negate
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Reaping the Graves
$0.33
0.35 tix
- 1 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.77 tix
- 2 Suffocating Fumes
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Unexpected Fangs
$0.21
0.03 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Instants (21)
- 1 Negate$0.13 0.03 tix
- 2 Moment's Peace
$2.17
7.48 tix - 1 Weather the Storm
$1.14
1.50 tix
- 1 Abrade
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Essence Scatter
$0.06
0.03 tix
- 4 Impulse
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Pulse of Murasa
$0.12
0.03 tix
- 1 Fiery Cannonade
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 2 Ghostly Flicker
$1.09
0.03 tix
- 2 Mystical Teachings
$0.11
0.02 tix
- 2 Crop Rotation
$3.53
2.12 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Ephemerate
$3.91
1.70 tix
Lands (22)
Sideboard
- 1 Ancient Grudge
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Cast Down
$0.33
3.32 tix
- 1 Dinrova Horror
$0.09
0.03 tix - 1 Gorilla Shaman
$0.21
0.15 tix
- 3 Hydroblast
$1.54
14.07 tix
- 1 Moment's Peace
$2.17
7.48 tix
- 1 Negate$0.13 0.03 tix
- 2 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Pyroblast
$3.38
21.86 tix
- 1 Scattershot
$0.43
0.04 tix
- 1 Stonehorn Dignitary
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Weather the Storm
$1.14
1.50 tix
Final: 1 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Instants (16)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (3)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Instants (18)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (4)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 Azure Fleet Admiral
$0.20
2.73 tix
- 1 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.28
14.21 tix
- 2 Blue Elemental Blast
$1.28
14.21 tix
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 2 Electrickery
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 1 Gorilla Shaman
$0.21
0.15 tix
- 1 Negate
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 4 Red Elemental Blast
$1.00
15.69 tix
- 1 Shenanigans
$0.20
0.03 tix
- 1 Swirling Sandstorm
$0.16
0.23 tix
Final: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Instants (24)
Artifacts (1)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 Bonder's Ornament
$0.23
3.31 tix
- 1 Chainer's Edict
$0.19
0.04 tix
- 1 Devour Flesh
$0.09
0.03 tix
- 2 Dispel
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 2 Hydroblast
$1.54
14.07 tix
- 1 Negate
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Shrivel
$0.09
0.03 tix
- 2 Stormbound Geist
$0.03
0.03 tix
- 1 Thorn of the Black Rose
$0.12
6.37 tix
- 2 Unexpected Fangs
$0.21
0.03 tix
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (20)
- 3 Cast Down
$0.33
3.32 tix
- 1 Echoing Decay
$0.19
0.03 tix
- 1 Suffocating Fumes
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 3 Snuff Out
$5.53
9.53 tix
- 2 Behold the Multiverse
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 3 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.99 tix
- 1 Dispel
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.23
0.01 tix
- 1 Agony Warp
$0.05
0.03 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 3 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (1)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
- 1 Bonder's Ornament
$0.23
3.31 tix
- 1 Chainer's Edict
$0.19
0.04 tix
- 1 Dispel
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 2 Duress
$0.08
0.01 tix
- 1 Echoing Truth
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Hydroblast
$1.54
14.07 tix
- 1 Negate
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Okiba-Gang Shinobi
$1.05
0.03 tix
- 1 Relic of Progenitus
$5.60
3.77 tix
- 2 Stormbound Geist
$0.03
0.03 tix
- 1 Suffocating Fumes
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 2 Unexpected Fangs
$0.21
0.03 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (16)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (19)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 7
