Stubborn Denial 
Oracle Text
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Ferocious — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, counter that spell instead.Format Legality
Competitive Play by Format
Top 8 decklists that played Stubborn Denial, by format.
| Format | Decks 30d | Avg 30d | Decks 12mo | Avg 12mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Modern | 6 | 2.8 | 210 | 2.3 |
| Duel Commander | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Pioneer | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Details
- Set
- Khans of Tarkir
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana value
- 1
- Collector #
- 56
Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Stubborn Denial
Final: 7 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Instants (2)
Artifacts (12)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Artifacts (13)
Lands (21)
- 3 Darksteel Citadel$0.99 0.01 tix
- 1 Darksteel Citadel$0.99 0.01 tix
- 2 Hallowed Fountain$7.82 0.06 tix
- 2 Hallowed Fountain$7.82 0.06 tix
- 4 Hengegate Pathway— —
- 1 Mana Confluence$33.70 0.42 tix
- 2 Mutavault$4.05 0.22 tix
- 1 Mutavault$4.05 0.22 tix
- 1 Plains$0.08 0.01 tix
- 4 Spire of Industry$0.25 0.02 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Instants (2)
Artifacts (11)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (18)
Instants (2)
Artifacts (11)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 4 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (17)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 3 Counterspell
$1.29
0.02 tix
- 4 Dauthi Voidwalker
$3.12
0.59 tix - 2 Engineered Explosives
$4.66
4.72 tix - 1 Hurkyl's Recall
$1.60
1.01 tix
- 1 Kolaghan's Command
$0.31
0.02 tix - 1 Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
$2.32
0.63 tix
- 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
$2.44
0.02 tix - 1 Stubborn Denial
$3.10
0.03 tix
- 1 Terminate
$0.29
0.02 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (10)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (19)
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (28)
- 2 Scavenging Ooze
$0.20
0.02 tix - 4 Garruk's Harbinger
$0.24
0.02 tix
- 1 Rhonas the Indomitable
$5.58
0.02 tix - 4 Elvish Mystic
$0.45
0.03 tix
- 4 Llanowar Elves
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 4 Barkhide Troll
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 4 Old-Growth Troll
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 4 Steel Leaf Champion
$0.52
0.02 tix
- 1 Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig
$0.37
0.02 tix
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
- 2 Scavenging Ooze
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 2 Garruk's Harbinger
$0.24
0.02 tix
- 2 Rhonas the Indomitable
$5.58
0.02 tix
- 4 Elvish Mystic
$0.45
0.03 tix
- 4 Llanowar Elves
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 4 Barkhide Troll
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 4 Old-Growth Troll
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 4 Steel Leaf Champion
$0.52
0.02 tix
- 1 Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig
$0.37
0.02 tix
Sorceries (2)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (1)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 3 | Swiss: 4
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (7)
Instants (17)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 1 Aether Gust
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 1 Assassin's Trophy
$0.64
0.02 tix
- 2 Ceremonious Rejection
$0.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Disdainful Stroke
$0.08
0.03 tix
- 1 Disdainful Stroke
$0.08
0.03 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.66
4.72 tix
- 3 Kozilek's Return
$0.31
0.46 tix
- 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
$2.44
0.02 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Stubborn Denial
$3.10
0.03 tix
- 2 Veil of Summer
$3.17
0.02 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 5
Main Deck
Creatures (27)
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Scavenging Ooze
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 2 Garruk's Harbinger
$0.24
0.02 tix
- 2 Rhonas the Indomitable
$5.58
0.02 tix
- 4 Elvish Mystic
$0.45
0.03 tix
- 4 Llanowar Elves
$0.28
0.03 tix
- 4 Barkhide Troll
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 4 Old-Growth Troll
$0.35
0.02 tix
- 4 Steel Leaf Champion
$0.52
0.02 tix
- 1 Yorvo, Lord of Garenbrig
$0.37
0.02 tix
Sorceries (2)
Instants (8)
Artifacts (1)
Lands (22)
Sideboard
Final: 1 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 2 Aether Gust
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 1 Collective Brutality
$0.34
0.13 tix
- 2 Disdainful Stroke
$0.08
0.03 tix
- 1 Engineered Explosives
$4.66
4.72 tix
- 2 Kolaghan's Command
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 1 Kozilek's Return
$0.31
0.46 tix
- 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
$2.44
0.02 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.43
0.02 tix
- 2 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Snapcaster Mage
$16.15
0.14 tix
- 1 Stubborn Denial
$3.10
0.03 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Instants (5)
Artifacts (8)
Lands (20)
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 6
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (14)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.61 0.02 tix
- 1 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.74 tix
- 1 Breeding Pool$9.69 0.02 tix
- 1 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 1 Overgrown Tomb$9.07 0.02 tix
- 3 Polluted Delta$18.91 2.50 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$6.38 0.02 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 Verdant Catacombs$28.24 1.26 tix
- 1 Watery Grave$9.63 0.03 tix
- 3 Wooded Foothills$16.81 2.67 tix
Sideboard
Final: 6 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (19)
Instants (4)
Artifacts (8)
Lands (21)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (18)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Final: 5 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (14)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (16)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.61 0.02 tix
- 1 Blood Crypt$9.61 0.02 tix
- 4 Bloodstained Mire$14.22 1.74 tix
- 1 Fiery Islet$4.29 7.15 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 1 Marsh Flats$31.43 0.88 tix
- 4 Polluted Delta$18.91 2.50 tix
- 1 Scalding Tarn$39.34 4.20 tix
- 1 Steam Vents$12.07 0.20 tix
- 1 Swamp$0.09 0.01 tix
- 2 Watery Grave$9.63 0.03 tix
Sideboard
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (15)
Sorceries (6)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (17)
Sideboard
- 1 Alpine Moon
$0.26
0.02 tix
- 2 Ashiok, Dream Render
$1.21
0.03 tix - 1 Bloodchief's Thirst
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 2 Kolaghan's Command
$0.31
0.02 tix
- 2 Mana Leak
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Mystical Dispute
$0.43
0.02 tix
- 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
$0.94
0.02 tix
- 1 Nihil Spellbomb
$1.87
0.03 tix
- 1 Plague Engineer
$0.24
0.02 tix
- 2 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Tale's End
$1.94
0.02 tix
Final: 3 | Swiss: 2
Main Deck
Creatures (13)
Sorceries (8)
Instants (18)
Planeswalkers (3)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
- 2 Abrupt Decay
$0.91
0.06 tix
- 1 Bojuka Bog$0.90 0.01 tix
- 2 Crop Rotation
$3.53
2.03 tix
- 1 Karakas$15.41 2.28 tix
- 1 Liliana, the Last Hope
$4.79
0.10 tix
- 1 Null Rod
$115.10
9.78 tix
- 2 Plague Engineer
$0.24
0.02 tix
- 1 Stubborn Denial
$3.10
0.03 tix
- 1 Submerge
$4.01
3.89 tix - 3 Surgical Extraction
$1.34
5.32 tix
Final: 7 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (30)
- 4 Satyr Wayfinder
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 2 Scavenging Ooze
$0.20
0.02 tix
- 1 Courser of Kruphix
$2.17
0.03 tix
- 1 Jadelight Ranger
$0.29
0.02 tix
- 3 Uro, Titan of Nature's Wrath
$2.48
0.58 tix
- 2 Fierce Empath
$0.13
0.03 tix
- 2 Llanowar Visionary
$0.22
0.03 tix
- 3 Cavalier of Thorns
$0.29
0.10 tix
- 2 Champion of Wits
$0.17
0.02 tix
- 2 Nimble Obstructionist
$0.45
0.02 tix
- 1 World Breaker
$0.29
0.26 tix - 4 Elder Deep-Fiend
$0.27
0.02 tix - 3 Arboreal Grazer
$0.14
0.03 tix
Lands (26)
- 1 Botanical Sanctum$1.41 0.02 tix
- 4 Breeding Pool$9.69 0.02 tix
- 1 Castle Garenbrig$7.29 0.02 tix
- 3 Forest$0.09 0.01 tix
- 4 Hinterland Harbor$0.27 0.02 tix
- 1 Island$0.05 0.01 tix
- 4 Ketria Triome$17.40 0.15 tix
- 4 Sanctum of Ugin$2.48 0.02 tix
- 1 Stomping Ground$6.38 0.02 tix
- 3 Yavimaya Coast$0.30 0.02 tix
Sideboard
- 1 Aether Gust
$0.24
0.03 tix
- 1 Barrier Breach
$0.21
0.03 tix
- 1 Carnage Tyrant
$4.34
0.02 tix
- 1 Kozilek's Return
$0.31
0.46 tix
- 2 Negate
$0.12
0.03 tix
- 1 Questing Beast
$2.58
0.21 tix
- 1 Reclamation Sage
$0.18
0.03 tix
- 1 Scrabbling Claws
$0.15
0.03 tix
- 1 Shifting Ceratops
$0.27
0.02 tix
- 1 Sorcerous Spyglass
$0.08
0.02 tix
- 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
$0.21
0.02 tix
- 1 Stubborn Denial
$3.10
0.03 tix
- 2 The Immortal Sun
$12.82
0.02 tix
Final: 5 | Swiss: 1
