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Adric, Mathematical Genius
Adric, Mathematical Genius 1Blue (2)
Legendary Creature — Human Artificer (1/1)

2Blue, Tap: Copy target activated or triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Ultimate Sacrifice — 1Blue, Sacrifice Adric: Counter target activated or triggered ability.

Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.)

Doctor Who Commander (Rare)
Ayesha Tanaka
Ayesha Tanaka WhiteWhiteBlueBlue (4)
Legendary Creature — Human Artificer (2/2)

Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)

Tap: Counter target activated ability from an artifact source unless that ability's controller pays White. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Chronicles (Rare)
Other Versions
Legends (Rare)
Azorius Guildmage
Azorius Guildmage White or BlueWhite or Blue (2)
Creature — Vedalken Wizard (2/2)

2White: Tap target creature.

2Blue: Counter target activated ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Ravnica Remastered (Uncommon)
Other Versions
Dissension (Uncommon)
Magic: The Gathering-Commander (Uncommon)
Guild Kit: Azorius (Uncommon)
Bind
Bind 1Green (2)
Instant

Counter target activated ability. <I>(Mana abilities can't be targeted.)</I>

Draw a card.

Invasion (Rare)
Bind//Liberate (playtest)
Bind//Liberate (playtest) 1Green (2)
Instant

Counter target activated ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)<i/>

Draw a card.

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Liberate

1White

Instant

Exile target creature you control. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Mystery Booster (Common)
Brokers Confluence
Brokers Confluence 2GreenWhiteBlue (5)
Instant

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.

• Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

• Target creature phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.)

• Counter target activated or triggered ability.

Streets of New Capenna Commander (Rare)
Brown Ouphe
Brown Ouphe Green (1)
Creature — Ouphe (1/1)

1Green, Tap: Counter target activated ability from an artifact source. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Mirrodin (Uncommon)
Other Versions
Ice Age (Common)
Defabricate
Defabricate 1Blue (2)
Instant

Choose one —

• Counter target artifact or enchantment spell. If a spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

• Counter target activated or triggered ability.

The Brothers' War (Uncommon)
Deny the Witch
Deny the Witch 1WhiteBlueBlack (4)
Instant

Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. Its controller loses life equal to the number of creatures you control.

Warhammer 40,000 Commander (Uncommon)
Diplomatic Escort
Diplomatic Escort 1Blue (2)
Creature — Human Spellshaper (1/1)

Blue, Tap, Discard a card: Counter target spell or ability that targets a creature.

Mercadian Masques (Uncommon)
Disallow
Disallow 1BlueBlue (3)
Instant

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

Kaladesh Remastered (Rare)
Other Versions
Aether Revolt (Rare)
Emerald Dragon (Dissonant Wave)
Emerald Dragon (Dissonant Wave) 2Green (3)
Instant — Adventure

Counter target activated or triggered ability from a noncreature source. (Then exile this card. You may cast the creature later from exile.)

Alchemy Horizons: Baldur's Gate (Uncommon)
Other Versions
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (Uncommon)
Emerald Dragon
Emerald Dragon 4GreenGreen (6)
Creature — Dragon (4/4)

Flying, trample

Alchemy Horizons: Baldur's Gate (Uncommon)
Other Versions
Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (Uncommon)
Ertai Resurrected
Ertai Resurrected 2BlueBlack (4)
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Human Wizard (3/2)

Flash

When Ertai Resurrected enters the battlefield, 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.

Dominaria United (Rare)
Goblin Artisans
Goblin Artisans Red (1)
Creature — Goblin Artificer (1/1)

Tap: Flip a coin. If you win the flip, draw a card. If you lose the flip, counter target artifact spell you control that isn't the target of an ability from another creature named Goblin Artisans.

Chronicles (Uncommon)
Other Versions
Antiquities (Uncommon)
Green Slime
Green Slime 2Green (3)
Creature — Ooze (2/2)

Flash

When Green Slime enters the battlefield, 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 Green (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.)

Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (Rare)
Interdict
Interdict 1Blue (2)
Instant

Counter target activated ability from an artifact, creature, enchantment, or land. That permanent's activated abilities can't be activated this turn. <I>(Mana abilities can't be targeted.)</I>

Draw a card.

Tempest (Uncommon)
Lullmage Mentor
Lullmage Mentor 1BlueBlue (3)
Creature — Merfolk Wizard (2/2)

Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may create a 1/1 blue Merfolk creature token.

Tap seven untapped Merfolk you control: Counter target spell.

Zendikar (Rare)
Mirrorshell Crab
Mirrorshell Crab 5BlueBlue (7)
Artifact Creature — Crab (5/7)

Ward 3 (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 3.)

Channel — 2Blue, Discard Mirrorshell Crab: Counter target spell or ability unless its controller pays 3.

Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (Common)
Nimble Obstructionist
Nimble Obstructionist 2Blue (3)
Creature — Bird Wizard (3/1)

Flash

Flying

Cycling 2Blue (2Blue, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

When you cycle Nimble Obstructionist, counter target activated or triggered ability you don't control.

Amonkhet Remastered (Rare)
Other Versions
Hour of Devastation (Rare)
Ikoria Commander (Rare)
Not of This World
Not of This World 7 (7)
Tribal Instant — Eldrazi

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.

Commander Masters (Uncommon)
Other Versions
Rise of the Eldrazi (Uncommon)
Ouphe Vandals
Ouphe Vandals 2Green (3)
Creature — Ouphe Rogue (2/2)

Green, Sacrifice Ouphe Vandals: Counter target activated ability from an artifact source and destroy that artifact if it's on the battlefield. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Fifth Dawn (Uncommon)
Overcharged Amalgam
Overcharged Amalgam 2BlueBlue (4)
Creature — Zombie Horror (3/3)

Flash

Flying

Exploit (When this creature enters the battlefield, you may sacrifice a creature.)

When Overcharged Amalgam exploits a creature, counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability.

Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (Rare)
Other Versions
Innistrad: Crimson Vow (Rare)
Repudiate // Replicate (Replicate)
Repudiate // Replicate (Replicate) 1GreenBlue (3)
Sorcery

Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control.

Ravnica Remastered (Rare)
Other Versions
Ravnica Allegiance (Rare)
Repudiate // Replicate (Repudiate)
Repudiate // Replicate (Repudiate) Green or BlueGreen or Blue (2)
Instant

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

Ravnica Remastered (Rare)
Other Versions
Ravnica Allegiance (Rare)
Rimewind Cryomancer
Rimewind Cryomancer 3Blue (4)
Creature — Human Wizard (2/3)

1, Tap: Counter target activated ability. Activate only if you control four or more snow permanents. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Coldsnap (Uncommon)
Rust
Rust Green (1)
Instant

Counter target activated ability from an artifact source. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Legends (Common)
Siren Stormtamer
Siren Stormtamer Blue (1)
Creature — Siren Pirate Wizard (1/1)

Flying

Blue, Sacrifice Siren Stormtamer: Counter target spell or ability that targets you or a creature you control.

The Lost Caverns of Ixalan Commander (Uncommon)
Other Versions
Ixalan (Uncommon)
Commander Legends (Uncommon)
Sister of Silence
Sister of Silence 4Blue (5)
Creature — Human Knight (3/3)

Flash

Psychic Abomination — When Sister of Silence enters the battlefield, counter target instant spell, sorcery spell, activated ability, or triggered ability.

Warhammer 40,000 Commander (Rare)
Squelch
Squelch 1Blue (2)
Instant

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

Draw a card.

Champions of Kamigawa (Uncommon)
Stifle
Stifle Blue (1)
Instant

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

Historic Anthology 5 (Rare)
Other Versions
Scourge (Rare)
Magic: The Gathering—Conspiracy (Rare)
Masterpiece Series: Amonkhet Invocations (Special)
Sublime Epiphany
Sublime Epiphany 4BlueBlue (6)
Instant

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.

Core Set 2021 (Rare)
Tale's End
Tale's End 1Blue (2)
Instant

Counter target activated ability, triggered ability, or legendary spell.

Core Set 2020 (Rare)
Teferi's Response
Teferi's Response 1Blue (2)
Instant

Counter target spell or ability an opponent controls that targets a land you control. If a permanent's ability is countered this way, destroy that permanent.

Draw two cards.

Invasion (Rare)
Tidal Control
Tidal Control 1BlueBlue (3)
Enchantment

Cumulative upkeep 2 (At the beginning of your upkeep, put an age counter on this permanent, then sacrifice it unless you pay its upkeep cost for each age counter on it.)

Pay 2 life or 2: Counter target red or green spell. Any player may activate this ability.

Alliances (Rare)
Trickbind
Trickbind 1Blue (2)
Instant

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.)

Time Spiral (Rare)
Verdant Command
Verdant Command 1Green (2)
Instant

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.

Modern Horizons 2 (Rare)
Voidmage Husher
Voidmage Husher 3Blue (4)
Creature — Human Wizard (2/2)

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)

When Voidmage Husher enters the battlefield, counter target activated ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Whenever you cast a spell, you may return Voidmage Husher to its owner's hand.

Time Spiral (Uncommon)
Voidslime
Voidslime GreenBlueBlue (3)
Instant

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

Outlaws of Thunder Junction Breaking News (Rare)
Other Versions
Dissension (Rare)
Guild Kit: Simic (Rare)
Secret Lair Drop (Rare)
Ravnica Remastered (Rare)
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