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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 | 625 | 1 |
| Pauper | 52 | 3.9 | 442 | 3.7 |
| Modern | 42 | 3.1 | 347 | 3.3 |
| Premodern | 49 | 4 | 328 | 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: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (37)
- 1 Go for the Throat
$0.36
0.02 tix - 1 Sheoldred's Edict
$1.03
0.03 tix
- 1 Tainted Pact
$32.97
3.92 tix
- 1 Dismember
$2.67
3.75 tix - 1 Consult the Star Charts
$3.48
4.61 tix
- 1 Daze
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 1 Lose Focus
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 1 Mana Leak
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Memory Lapse
$0.38
0.04 tix
- 1 Remand
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 1 Tale's End
$1.94
0.02 tix
- 1 Sauron's Ransom
$0.59
0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$48.99
18.36 tix
- 1 Sink into Stupor
$5.35
8.16 tix
- 1 Cryptic Command
$3.13
0.06 tix
- 1 Brainsurge
$0.33
0.03 tix - 1 Rakshasa's Bargain
$0.28
0.04 tix - 1 Cling to Dust
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Cut Down
$0.37
0.03 tix
- 1 Demonic Consultation
$7.53
1.19 tix
- 1 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Requiting Hex
$0.54
0.04 tix
- 1 Abrupt Decay
$0.91
0.06 tix - 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.89 tix
- 1 Consider
$0.23
0.01 tix
- 1 Force Spike
$0.99
0.04 tix
- 1 Mental Note
$6.71
15.38 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Spell Snare
$0.29
0.21 tix
- 1 Stern Scolding
$0.28
0.30 tix
- 1 Stifle
$7.00
16.70 tix
- 1 Thought Scour
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 1 Wash Away
$0.39
0.03 tix
- 1 Drown in the Loch
$1.01
0.03 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Archmage's Charm
$1.08
0.15 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.17
0.02 tix
Artifacts (2)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (37)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 5.78 tix
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.74 tix
- 1 Botanical Sanctum$1.41 0.02 tix
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.69 0.02 tix
- 1 Cactus Preserve$4.33 5.04 tix
- 1 Command Tower$0.27 0.01 tix
- 1 Creeping Tar Pit$0.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Darkslick Shores$1.66 0.02 tix
- 1 Drowned Catacomb$1.21 0.02 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Gloomlake Verge$9.78 0.33 tix
- 1 Hall of Storm Giants$0.44 0.02 tix
- 1 Hedge Maze$11.36 1.90 tix
- 1 Hinterland Harbor$0.27 0.02 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.43 0.88 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.45 1.73 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.31 2.08 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.91 2.50 tix
- 1 Prismatic Vista$25.94 3.18 tix
- 1 Reflecting Pool$11.32 0.10 tix
- 1 River of Tears$0.28 0.02 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.34 4.20 tix
- 1 Shipwreck Marsh$5.83 0.07 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire$11.13 0.15 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.90 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$9.44 7.19 tix
- 1 Underground Mortuary$13.46 1.46 tix
- 1 Underground River$1.37 0.02 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.86 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.26 tix
- 1 Watery Grave$9.63 0.03 tix
- 1 Willowrush Verge$6.30 0.02 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$9.68 1.01 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$16.81 2.67 tix
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Instants (22)
Planeswalkers (2)
Lands (24)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (21)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (24)
- 4 Field of Ruin$0.20 0.03 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.45 1.73 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.31 2.08 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.91 2.50 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Undercity Sewers$9.44 7.19 tix
- 3 Watery Grave$9.63 0.03 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (10)
Sorceries (16)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (4)
Instants (16)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Instants (21)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (24)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Sorceries (4)
Instants (32)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 2 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Sorceries (5)
Instants (21)
Artifacts (3)
Lands (27)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Instants (23)
- 3 Sheoldred's Edict
$1.03
0.03 tix
- 4 Consult the Star Charts
$3.48
4.61 tix
- 1 Force of Negation
$48.99
18.36 tix
- 2 Cling to Dust
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 2 Fatal Push
$0.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Spell Snare
$0.29
0.21 tix
- 2 Spell Snare
$0.29
0.21 tix
- 4 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Logic Knot
$0.18
0.03 tix
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (24)
- 2 Field of Ruin$0.20 0.03 tix
- 2 Field of Ruin$0.20 0.03 tix
- 4 Flooded Strand$11.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 3 Polluted Delta$18.91 2.50 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.91 2.50 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.34 4.20 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$9.44 7.19 tix
- 2 Undercity Sewers$9.44 7.19 tix
- 3 Watery Grave$9.63 0.03 tix
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Instants (23)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (24)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (12)
- 1 Hidden Strings
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Merchant Scroll
$4.55
2.50 tix
- 1 Exhaustion
$0.20
0.03 tix
- 1 Solve the Equation
$3.95
0.03 tix
- 1 Stock Up
$1.29
0.40 tix
- 1 Lórien Revealed
$4.89
4.65 tix - 1 Personal Tutor
$5.48
3.54 tix
- 1 Ponder
$1.73
0.01 tix
- 1 Preordain
$0.45
0.01 tix
- 1 Serum Visions
$0.50
0.03 tix
- 1 Sleight of Hand
$0.32
0.03 tix
- 1 Gitaxian Probe
$3.95
0.01 tix
Instants (46)
- 1 Pact of Negation
$18.23
0.31 tix - 1 Brain Freeze
$2.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Consult the Star Charts
$3.48
4.61 tix
- 1 Curate
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Impulse
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Lose Focus
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 1 Mana Leak
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Moment of Truth
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Remand
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 1 Snap
$3.36
0.05 tix
- 1 Tale's End
$1.94
0.02 tix
- 1 Unsubstantiate
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Sink into Stupor
$5.35
8.16 tix
- 1 Cryptic Command
$3.13
0.06 tix
- 1 Brainsurge
$0.33
0.03 tix
- 1 Frantic Search
$0.56
0.04 tix
- 1 Intuition
$358.15
19.12 tix
- 1 Mana Short
$0.46
5.02 tix
- 1 Unwind
$1.06
0.03 tix
- 1 Rewind
$0.43
0.03 tix
- 1 Turnabout
$0.18
0.02 tix
- 1 Misdirection
$5.84
8.89 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.89 tix
- 1 Consider
$0.23
0.01 tix
- 1 Dizzy Spell
$2.48
0.03 tix
- 1 Dream's Grip
$0.32
0.03 tix
- 1 Force Spike
$0.99
0.04 tix
- 1 Gigadrowse
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 High Tide
$0.88
0.04 tix
- 1 Into the Flood Maw
$2.38
9.73 tix
- 1 Mental Note
$6.71
15.38 tix
- 1 Opt
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Peek
$0.45
0.03 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Spell Snare
$0.29
0.21 tix
- 1 Stern Scolding
$0.28
0.30 tix
- 1 Stifle
$7.00
16.70 tix
- 1 Suspend
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 1 Thought Scour
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 1 Three Steps Ahead
$2.25
0.12 tix
- 1 Twiddle
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Wash Away
$0.39
0.03 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Archmage's Charm
$1.08
0.15 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.17
0.02 tix
- 1 Repeal
$0.07
0.01 tix
Lands (35)
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.37 2.30 tix
- 7 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 3 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 2 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 4 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.45 1.73 tix
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary$1.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.91 2.50 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.34 4.20 tix
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (37)
- 1 Consult the Star Charts$3.48 4.61 tix
- 1 Dismember$2.67 3.75 tix
- 1 Fatal Push$0.41 0.02 tix
- 1 Force of Negation$48.99 18.36 tix
- 1 Tainted Pact$32.97 3.92 tix
- 1 Go for the Throat
$0.36
0.02 tix
- 1 Sheoldred's Edict
$1.03
0.03 tix
- 1 Daze
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 1 Lose Focus
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 1 Mana Leak
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Memory Lapse
$0.38
0.04 tix
- 1 Remand
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 1 Tale's End
$1.94
0.02 tix
- 1 Sauron's Ransom
$0.59
0.02 tix
- 1 Sink into Stupor
$5.35
8.16 tix
- 1 Cryptic Command
$3.13
0.06 tix
- 1 Brainsurge
$0.33
0.03 tix
- 1 Rakshasa's Bargain
$0.28
0.04 tix
- 1 Cling to Dust
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 1 Cut Down
$0.37
0.03 tix
- 1 Demonic Consultation
$7.53
1.19 tix
- 1 Requiting Hex
$0.54
0.04 tix
- 1 Abrupt Decay
$0.91
0.06 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.89 tix
- 1 Consider
$0.23
0.01 tix
- 1 Force Spike
$0.99
0.04 tix
- 1 Mental Note
$6.71
15.38 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Spell Snare
$0.29
0.21 tix
- 1 Stern Scolding
$0.28
0.30 tix
- 1 Stifle
$7.00
16.70 tix
- 1 Thought Scour
$0.40
0.03 tix
- 1 Wash Away
$0.39
0.03 tix
- 1 Drown in the Loch
$1.01
0.03 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Archmage's Charm
$1.08
0.15 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.17
0.02 tix
Enchantments (2)
Lands (37)
- 1 Bayou$226.24 5.78 tix
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.74 tix
- 1 Botanical Sanctum$1.41 0.02 tix
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.69 0.02 tix
- 1 Cactus Preserve$4.33 5.04 tix
- 1 Command Tower$0.27 0.01 tix
- 1 Creeping Tar Pit$0.33 0.02 tix
- 1 Darkslick Shores$1.66 0.02 tix
- 1 Drowned Catacomb$1.21 0.02 tix
- 1 Flooded Strand$11.37 2.30 tix
- 1 Gloomlake Verge$9.78 0.33 tix
- 1 Hall of Storm Giants$0.44 0.02 tix
- 1 Hedge Maze$11.36 1.90 tix
- 1 Hinterland Harbor$0.27 0.02 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.43 0.88 tix
- 1 Misty Rainforest$35.45 1.73 tix
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City$27.31 2.08 tix
- 1 Polluted Delta$18.91 2.50 tix
- 1 Prismatic Vista$25.94 3.18 tix
- 1 Reflecting Pool$11.32 0.10 tix
- 1 River of Tears$0.28 0.02 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.34 4.20 tix
- 1 Shipwreck Marsh$5.83 0.07 tix
- 1 Snow-Covered Island$1.04 0.01 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire$11.13 0.15 tix
- 1 Tropical Island$312.50 9.90 tix
- 1 Undercity Sewers$9.44 7.19 tix
- 1 Underground Mortuary$13.46 1.46 tix
- 1 Underground River$1.37 0.02 tix
- 1 Underground Sea$393.31 14.86 tix
- 1 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.26 tix
- 1 Watery Grave$9.63 0.03 tix
- 1 Willowrush Verge$6.30 0.02 tix
- 1 Windswept Heath$9.68 1.01 tix
- 1 Wooded Foothills$16.81 2.67 tix
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (5)
Sorceries (11)
- 1 Hidden Strings
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Merchant Scroll
$4.55
2.50 tix
- 1 Exhaustion
$0.20
0.03 tix
- 1 Solve the Equation
$3.95
0.03 tix
- 1 Stock Up
$1.29
0.40 tix
- 1 Lórien Revealed
$4.89
4.65 tix
- 1 Ponder
$1.73
0.01 tix
- 1 Preordain
$0.45
0.01 tix
- 1 Serum Visions
$0.50
0.03 tix
- 1 Sleight of Hand
$0.32
0.03 tix
- 1 Gitaxian Probe
$3.95
0.01 tix
Instants (45)
- 1 Pact of Negation
$18.23
0.31 tix
- 1 Brain Freeze
$2.41
0.02 tix
- 1 Consult the Star Charts
$3.48
4.61 tix
- 1 Curate
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Daze
$0.90
0.02 tix
- 1 Impulse
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 1 Lose Focus
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 1 Moment of Truth
$0.27
0.03 tix
- 1 Remand
$0.30
0.03 tix
- 1 Snap
$3.36
0.05 tix
- 1 Tale's End
$1.94
0.02 tix
- 1 Unsubstantiate
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Sink into Stupor
$5.35
8.16 tix
- 1 Cryptic Command
$3.13
0.06 tix
- 1 Brainsurge
$0.33
0.03 tix
- 1 Frantic Search
$0.56
0.04 tix
- 1 Intuition
$358.15
19.12 tix
- 1 Mana Short
$0.46
5.02 tix
- 1 Unwind
$1.06
0.03 tix
- 1 Memory Deluge
$0.31
0.17 tix
- 1 Rewind
$0.43
0.03 tix
- 1 Turnabout
$0.18
0.02 tix
- 1 Brainstorm
$1.19
0.89 tix
- 1 Chain of Vapor
$9.39
0.07 tix
- 1 Consider
$0.23
0.01 tix
- 1 Dizzy Spell
$2.48
0.03 tix
- 1 Dream's Grip
$0.32
0.03 tix
- 1 Force Spike
$0.99
0.04 tix
- 1 Gigadrowse
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 High Tide
$0.88
0.04 tix
- 1 Into the Flood Maw
$2.38
9.73 tix
- 1 Mental Note
$6.71
15.38 tix
- 1 Opt
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Peek
$0.45
0.03 tix
- 1 Spell Pierce
$0.22
0.01 tix
- 1 Spell Snare
$0.29
0.21 tix
- 1 Stifle
$7.00
16.70 tix
- 1 Suspend
$0.44
0.02 tix
- 1 Twiddle
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Wash Away
$0.39
0.03 tix
- 1 Whispers of the Muse
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 1 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 1 Archmage's Charm
$1.08
0.15 tix
- 1 Mental Misstep
$8.17
0.02 tix
- 1 Repeal
$0.07
0.01 tix
Lands (35)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (22)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (11)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (14)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (13)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (12)
Lands (16)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (17)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 2
