Best Counterspells

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Counterspell Counter target spell.

Counterspell

An Offer You Can't Refuse Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

An Offer You Can't Refuse

Arcane Denial Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep. You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Arcane Denial

Negate Counter target noncreature spell.

Negate

Swan Song Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Swan Song

Fierce Guardianship If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell.

Fierce Guardianship

Mana Drain Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.

Mana Drain

Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs Return target spell or nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand. // As this land enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}.

Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs

Force of Will You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

Force of Will

Dovin's Veto This spell can't be countered. Counter target noncreature spell.

Dovin's Veto

Force of Negation If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Force of Negation

Hullbreaker Horror Flash This spell can't be countered. Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one — • Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand. • Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Hullbreaker Horror

Flusterstorm Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}. Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn. You may choose new targets for the copies.)

Flusterstorm

Pact of Negation Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {3}{U}{U}. If you don't, you lose the game.

Pact of Negation

Red Elemental Blast Choose one — • Counter target blue spell. • Destroy target blue permanent.

Red Elemental Blast

Mental Misstep ({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) Counter target spell with mana value 1.

Mental Misstep

Pyroblast Choose one — • Counter target spell if it's blue. • Destroy target permanent if it's blue.

Pyroblast

Mindbreak Trap If an opponent cast three or more spells this turn, you may pay {0} rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Exile any number of target spells.

Mindbreak Trap

Tibalt's Trickery Counter target spell. Choose 1, 2, or 3 at random. Its controller mills that many cards, then exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card with a different name than that spell. They may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then they put the exiled cards on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Tibalt's Trickery

Reprieve Return target spell to its owner's hand. Draw a card.

Reprieve

Muddle the Mixture Counter target instant or sorcery spell. Transmute {1}{U}{U} ({1}{U}{U}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Muddle the Mixture

Narset's Reversal Copy target instant or sorcery spell, then return it to its owner's hand. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Narset's Reversal

Boromir, Warden of the Tower Vigilance Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell. Sacrifice Boromir: Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. The Ring tempts you.

Boromir, Warden of the Tower

Spell Pierce Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}.

Spell Pierce

Dispel Counter target instant spell.

Dispel

Rewind Counter target spell. Untap up to four lands.

Rewind

Strix Serenade Counter target artifact, creature, or planeswalker spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Strix Serenade

Unwind Counter target noncreature spell. Untap up to three lands.

Unwind

Three Steps Ahead Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1}{U} — Counter target spell. + {3} — Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature you control. + {2} — Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Three Steps Ahead

Siren Stormtamer Flying {U}, Sacrifice this creature: Counter target spell or ability that targets you or a creature you control.

Siren Stormtamer

Vexing Bauble Whenever a player casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Vexing Bauble

Flare of Denial You may sacrifice a nontoken blue creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

Flare of Denial

Drown in the Loch Choose one — • Counter target spell with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard. • Destroy target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.

Drown in the Loch

Mystic Confluence Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once. • Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}. • Return target creature to its owner's hand. • Draw a card.

Mystic Confluence

Long River's Pull Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.) Counter target creature spell. If the gift was promised, instead counter target spell.

Long River's Pull

Izzet Charm Choose one — • Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {2}. • Izzet Charm deals 2 damage to target creature. • Draw two cards, then discard two cards.

Izzet Charm

Stubborn Denial Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {1}. Ferocious — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, counter that spell instead.

Stubborn Denial

Rebuff the Wicked Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control.

Rebuff the Wicked

Null Elemental Blast Choose one — • Counter target multicolored spell. • Destroy target multicolored permanent.

Null Elemental Blast

Kozilek, the Great Distortion When you cast this spell, if you have fewer than seven cards in hand, draw cards equal to the difference. Menace Discard a card with mana value X: Counter target spell with mana value X.

Kozilek, the Great Distortion

Cryptic Command Choose two — • Counter target spell. • Return target permanent to its owner's hand. • Tap all creatures your opponents control. • Draw a card.

Cryptic Command

Glen Elendra Archmage Flying {U}, Sacrifice this creature: Counter target noncreature spell. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Glen Elendra Archmage

Sublime Epiphany Choose one or more — • Counter target spell. • Counter target activated or triggered ability. • Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. • Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control. • Target player draws a card.

Sublime Epiphany

Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant Whenever you cast an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, copy that spell. You may choose new targets for the copy. This ability triggers only once each turn. (A copy of a permanent spell becomes a token.) Whenever an opponent casts an artifact, instant, or sorcery spell, counter that spell. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant

Archmage's Charm Choose one — • Counter target spell. • Target player draws two cards. • Gain control of target nonland permanent with mana value 1 or less.

Archmage's Charm

Mana Leak Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Mana Leak

Disallow Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Disallow

Refute Counter target spell. Draw a card, then discard a card.

Refute

Aven Interrupter Flash Flying When this creature enters, exile target spell. It becomes plotted. (Its owner may cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost.) Spells your opponents cast from graveyards or from exile cost {2} more to cast.

Aven Interrupter

Venser, Shaper Savant Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When Venser enters, return target spell or permanent to its owner's hand.

Venser, Shaper Savant

Warping Wail ({C} represents colorless mana.) Choose one — • Exile target creature with power or toughness 1 or less. • Counter target sorcery spell. • Create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token. It has "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}."

Warping Wail

Cancel Counter target spell.

Cancel

Dawn Charm Choose one — • Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. • Regenerate target creature. • Counter target spell that targets you.

Dawn Charm

Mana Tithe Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Mana Tithe

Delay Counter target spell. If the spell is countered this way, exile it with three time counters on it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of its owner's upkeep, they remove a time counter. When the last is removed, they may play it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)

Delay

Invert Polarity Choose target spell, then flip a coin. If you win the flip, gain control of that spell and you may choose new targets for it. If you lose the flip, counter that spell.

Invert Polarity

Disdainful Stroke Counter target spell with mana value 4 or greater.

Disdainful Stroke

Not of This World Counter target spell or ability that targets a permanent you control. This spell costs {7} less to cast if it targets a spell or ability that targets a creature you control with power 7 or greater.

Not of This World

Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}. // This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {U}.

Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins

Essence Scatter Counter target creature spell.

Essence Scatter

Miscast Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Miscast

Tishana's Tidebinder Flash When this creature enters, counter up to one target activated or triggered ability. If an ability of an artifact, creature, or planeswalker is countered this way, that permanent loses all abilities for as long as this creature remains on the battlefield. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Tishana's Tidebinder

Sundial of the Infinite {1}, {T}: End the turn. Activate only during your turn. (Exile all spells and abilities from the stack. Discard down to your maximum hand size. Damage wears off, and "this turn" and "until end of turn" effects end.)

Sundial of the Infinite

Repulsive Mutation Put X +1/+1 counters on target creature you control. Then counter up to one target spell unless its controller pays mana equal to the greatest power among creatures you control.

Repulsive Mutation

Wash Away Cleave {1}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.) Counter target spell [that wasn't cast from its owner's hand].

Wash Away

Spider-Sense Web-slinging {U} (You may cast this spell for {U} if you also return a tapped creature you control to its owner's hand.) Counter target instant spell, sorcery spell, or triggered ability.

Spider-Sense

Daze You may return an Island you control to its owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Daze

Saw It Coming Counter target spell. Foretell {1}{U} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Saw It Coming

Render Silent Counter target spell. Its controller can't cast spells this turn.

Render Silent

Lavinia, Azorius Renegade Each opponent can't cast noncreature spells with mana value greater than the number of lands that player controls. Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell.

Lavinia, Azorius Renegade

Spell Swindle Counter target spell. Create X Treasure tokens, where X is that spell's mana value. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Spell Swindle

Memory Lapse Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

Memory Lapse

Decisive Denial Choose one — • Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.) • Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Decisive Denial

Commit // Memory Put target spell or nonland permanent into its owner's library second from the top. // Aftermath (Cast this spell only from your graveyard. Then exile it.) Each player shuffles their hand and graveyard into their library, then draws seven cards.

Commit // Memory

Counterbalance Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may reveal the top card of your library. If you do, counter that spell if it has the same mana value as the revealed card.

Counterbalance

Ertai Resurrected Flash When Ertai Resurrected enters, choose up to one — • Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. Its controller draws a card. • Destroy another target creature or planeswalker. Its controller draws a card.

Ertai Resurrected

Didn't Say Please Counter target spell. Its controller mills three cards.

Didn't Say Please

Countersquall Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller loses 2 life.

Countersquall

Frontline Medic Battalion — Whenever this creature and at least two other creatures attack, creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. Sacrifice this creature: Counter target spell with {X} in its mana cost unless its controller pays {3}.

Frontline Medic

Spellstutter Sprite Flash Flying When this creature enters, counter target spell with mana value X or less, where X is the number of Faeries you control.

Spellstutter Sprite

Aang, Swift Savior // Aang and La, Ocean's Fury Flash Flying When Aang enters, airbend up to one other target creature or spell. (Exile it. While it's exiled, its owner may cast it for {2} rather than its mana cost.) Waterbend {8}: Transform Aang. // Reach, trample Whenever Aang and La attack, put a +1/+1 counter on each tapped creature you control.

Aang, Swift Savior // Aang and La, Ocean's Fury

Absorb Counter target spell. You gain 3 life.

Absorb

Access Denied Counter target spell. Create X 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature tokens with flying, where X is that spell's mana value.

Access Denied

It'll Quench Ya! Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}.

It'll Quench Ya!

Mana Sculpt Counter target spell. If you control a Wizard, add an amount of {C} equal to the amount of mana spent to cast that spell at the beginning of your next main phase.

Mana Sculpt

Syncopate Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Syncopate

Spell Stutter Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2} plus an additional {1} for each Faerie you control.

Spell Stutter

Amazing Acrobatics Choose one or both — • Counter target spell. • Tap one or two target creatures.

Amazing Acrobatics

Subtlety Flash Flying When this creature enters, choose up to one target creature spell or planeswalker spell. Its owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library. Evoke—Exile a blue card from your hand.

Subtlety

Dazzling Denial Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}. If you control a Bird, counter that spell unless its controller pays {4} instead.

Dazzling Denial

Foil You may discard an Island card and another card rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

Foil

Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist {U}, Sacrifice this creature: Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {3}. Disturb {2}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard transformed for its disturb cost.) // Flying Noncreature spells you control can't be countered. If Benevolent Geist would be put into a graveyard from anywhere, exile it instead.

Malevolent Hermit // Benevolent Geist

Permission Denied Counter target noncreature spell. Your opponents can't cast noncreature spells this turn.

Permission Denied

Quandrix Command Choose two — • Return target creature or planeswalker to its owner's hand. • Counter target artifact or enchantment spell. • Put two +1/+1 counters on target creature. • Target player shuffles up to three target cards from their graveyard into their library.

Quandrix Command

Dream Fracture Counter target spell. Its controller draws a card. Draw a card.

Dream Fracture

Voidslime Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Voidslime

Stifle Counter target activated or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Stifle

Annul Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.

Annul

Remand Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it into its owner's hand instead of into that player's graveyard. Draw a card.

Remand

Wizard's Retort This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control a Wizard. Counter target spell.

Wizard's Retort

Vodalian Hexcatcher Flash Other Merfolk you control get +1/+1. Sacrifice a Merfolk: Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Vodalian Hexcatcher

Reject Imperfection Counter target spell. If that spell's mana value was 3 or less, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Reject Imperfection

Saruman's Trickery Counter target spell. Amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Saruman's Trickery

Tale's End Counter target activated ability, triggered ability, or legendary spell.

Tale's End

Possibility Storm Whenever a player casts a spell from their hand, that player exiles it, then exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a card that shares a card type with it. That player may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then they put all cards exiled with this enchantment on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Possibility Storm

Overcharged Amalgam Flash Flying Exploit (When this creature enters, you may sacrifice a creature.) When this creature exploits a creature, counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability.

Overcharged Amalgam

Bant Charm Choose one — • Destroy target artifact. • Put target creature on the bottom of its owner's library. • Counter target instant spell.

Bant Charm

Verdant Command Choose two — • Target player creates two tapped 1/1 green Squirrel creature tokens. • Counter target loyalty ability of a planeswalker. • Exile target card from a graveyard. • Target player gains 3 life.

Verdant Command

Reverse the Polarity Choose one — • Counter all other spells. • Switch each creature's power and toughness until end of turn. • Creatures can't be blocked this turn.

Reverse the Polarity

Withering Boon As an additional cost to cast this spell, pay 3 life. Counter target creature spell.

Withering Boon

Unsubstantiate Return target spell or creature to its owner's hand.

Unsubstantiate

Perplex Counter target spell unless its controller discards their hand. Transmute {1}{U}{B} ({1}{U}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

Perplex

Fear of Impostors Flash When this creature enters, counter target spell. Its controller manifests dread. (That player looks at the top two cards of their library, then puts one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into their graveyard. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)

Fear of Impostors

Lofty Denial Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}. If you control a creature with flying, counter that spell unless its controller pays {4} instead.

Lofty Denial

Press the Enemy Return target spell or nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell with equal or lesser mana value from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Press the Enemy

Hindering Light Counter target spell that targets you or a permanent you control. Draw a card.

Hindering Light

Glorious Gale Counter target creature spell. If it was a legendary spell, the Ring tempts you.

Glorious Gale

Judge's Familiar Flying Sacrifice this creature: Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Judge's Familiar

Kira, Great Glass-Spinner Flying Creatures you control have "Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability for the first time each turn, counter that spell or ability."

Kira, Great Glass-Spinner

Green Slime Flash When this creature enters, counter target activated or triggered ability from an artifact or enchantment source. If a permanent's ability is countered this way, destroy that permanent. Foretell {G} (During your turn, you may pay {2} and exile this card from your hand face down. Cast it on a later turn for its foretell cost.)

Green Slime

Sapphire Dragon // Psionic Pulse Flying Whenever this creature attacks or blocks, scry 2. // Counter target noncreature spell. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Sapphire Dragon // Psionic Pulse

Thought Collapse Counter target spell. Its controller mills three cards.

Thought Collapse

Electrosiphon Counter target spell. You get an amount of {E} (energy counters) equal to its mana value.

Electrosiphon

Hypnotic Sprite // Mesmeric Glare Flying // Counter target spell with mana value 3 or less. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Hypnotic Sprite // Mesmeric Glare

Essence Capture Counter target creature spell. Put a +1/+1 counter on up to one target creature you control.

Essence Capture

Mystic Snake Flash When this creature enters, counter target spell.

Mystic Snake

Glen Elendra Guardian Flash Flying This creature enters with a -1/-1 counter on it. {1}{U}, Remove a counter from this creature: Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller draws a card.

Glen Elendra Guardian

You Find the Villains' Lair Choose one — • Foil Their Scheme — Counter target spell. • Learn Their Secrets — Draw two cards, then discard two cards.

You Find the Villains' Lair

Keep Safe Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control. Draw a card.

Keep Safe

Get Out Choose one — • Counter target creature or enchantment spell. • Return one or two target creatures and/or enchantments you own to your hand.

Get Out

No More Lies Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

No More Lies

Counterflux This spell can't be countered. Counter target spell you don't control. Overload {1}{U}{U}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Counterflux

Condescend Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. Scry 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Condescend

Don't Make a Sound Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}. If they do, surveil 2. (Look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Don't Make a Sound

Bilbo's Gambit Gift a Treasure (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a Treasure token before its other effects. It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.") Return target spell to its owner's hand. If the gift was promised, players can't cast spells this turn.

Bilbo's Gambit

Louisoix's Sacrifice As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a legendary creature or pay {2}. Counter target activated ability, triggered ability, or noncreature spell.

Louisoix's Sacrifice

Undermine Counter target spell. Its controller loses 3 life.

Undermine

Abjure As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a blue permanent. Counter target spell.

Abjure

Nimble Obstructionist Flash Flying Cycling {2}{U} ({2}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.) When you cycle this card, counter target activated or triggered ability you don't control.

Nimble Obstructionist

Dissolve Counter target spell. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Dissolve

Whirlwind Denial For each spell and ability your opponents control, counter it unless its controller pays {4}.

Whirlwind Denial

Sinister Sabotage Counter target spell. Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)

Sinister Sabotage

Dissipate Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Dissipate

Lapse of Certainty Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

Lapse of Certainty

Defabricate Choose one — • Counter target artifact or enchantment spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. • Counter target activated or triggered ability.

Defabricate

Jace, Unraveler of Secrets +1: Scry 1, then draw a card. −2: Return target creature to its owner's hand. −8: You get an emblem with "Whenever an opponent casts their first spell each turn, counter that spell."

Jace, Unraveler of Secrets

Fuel for the Cause Counter target spell, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Fuel for the Cause

Trickbind Split second (As long as this spell is on the stack, players can't cast spells or activate abilities that aren't mana abilities.) Counter target activated or triggered ability. If a permanent's ability is countered this way, activated abilities of that permanent can't be activated this turn. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Trickbind

Bane's Contingency Counter target spell. If that spell targets a commander you control, instead counter that spell, scry 2, then draw a card.

Bane's Contingency

Disruption Protocol As an additional cost to cast this spell, tap an untapped artifact you control or pay {1}. Counter target spell.

Disruption Protocol

Turn Aside Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control.

Turn Aside

Stoic Rebuttal Metalcraft — This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control three or more artifacts. Counter target spell.

Stoic Rebuttal

Plasm Capture Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next first main phase, add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is that spell's mana value.

Plasm Capture

Knowledge Pool Imprint — When this artifact enters, each player exiles the top three cards of their library. Whenever a player casts a spell from their hand, that player exiles it. If the player does, they may cast a spell from among other cards exiled with this artifact without paying its mana cost.

Knowledge Pool

Mausoleum Wanderer Flying Whenever another Spirit you control enters, this creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn. Sacrifice this creature: Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {X}, where X is this creature's power.

Mausoleum Wanderer

Familiar's Ruse As an additional cost to cast this spell, return a creature you control to its owner's hand. Counter target spell.

Familiar's Ruse

Smirking Spelljacker Flash Flying When this creature enters, exile target spell an opponent controls. Whenever this creature attacks, if a card is exiled with it, you may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost.

Smirking Spelljacker

Planar Chaos At the beginning of your upkeep, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, sacrifice this enchantment. Whenever a player casts a spell, that player flips a coin. If they lose the flip, counter that spell.

Planar Chaos

Transcendent Dragon Flash Flying When this creature enters, if you cast it, counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard, then you may cast it without paying its mana cost.

Transcendent Dragon

Thassa's Intervention Choose one — • Look at the top X cards of your library. Put up to two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. • Counter target spell unless its controller pays twice {X}.

Thassa's Intervention

Neutralize Counter target spell. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Neutralize

Glen Elendra's Answer This spell can't be countered. Counter all spells your opponents control and all abilities your opponents control. Create a 1/1 blue and black Faerie creature token with flying for each spell and ability countered this way.

Glen Elendra's Answer

Split Decision Will of the council — Choose target instant or sorcery spell. Starting with you, each player votes for denial or duplication. If denial gets more votes, counter the spell. If duplication gets more votes or the vote is tied, copy the spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Split Decision

Time Stop End the turn. (Exile all spells and abilities, including this spell. The player whose turn it is discards down to their maximum hand size. Damage heals and "this turn" and "until end of turn" effects end.)

Time Stop

Desertion Counter target spell. If an artifact or creature spell is countered this way, put that card onto the battlefield under your control instead of into its owner's graveyard.

Desertion

Frilled Mystic Flash When this creature enters, you may counter target spell.

Frilled Mystic

Diversion Unit Flying {U}, Sacrifice this creature: Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Diversion Unit

Consign to Memory Replicate {1} (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.) Counter target triggered ability or colorless spell.

Consign to Memory

Artistic Refusal Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Choose one or both — • Counter target spell. • Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Artistic Refusal

Endless Detour The owner of target spell, nonland permanent, or card in a graveyard puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.

Endless Detour

Temur Charm Choose one — • Target creature you control gets +1/+1 until end of turn. It fights target creature you don't control. • Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}. • Creatures with power 3 or less can't block this turn.

Temur Charm

Aether Spike Choose target spell. You get {E}{E} (two energy counters), then you may pay any amount of {E}. Counter that spell unless its controller pays {1} for each {E} paid this way.

Aether Spike

Divert Disaster Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}. If they do, you create a Lander token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.")

Divert Disaster

Ionize Counter target spell. Ionize deals 2 damage to that spell's controller.

Ionize

Circular Logic Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each card in your graveyard. Madness {U} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Circular Logic