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Syncopate
Syncopate Variable ColorlessBlue (1)
Instant

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

Innistrad: Crimson Vow (Common)
Other Versions
Odyssey (Common)
Return to Ravnica (Uncommon)
Dominaria (Common)
Guild Kit: Dimir (Uncommon)
Syphon Essence
Syphon Essence 2Blue (3)
Instant

Counter target creature or planeswalker spell. Create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "1, Tap, Discard a card, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Innistrad: Crimson Vow (Common)
Tale's End
Tale's End 1Blue (2)
Instant

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

Core Set 2020 (Rare)
Teferi's Care
Teferi's Care 2White (3)
Enchantment

White, Sacrifice an enchantment: Destroy target enchantment.

3BlueBlue: Counter target enchantment spell.

Invasion (Uncommon)
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)
Test of Talents
Test of Talents 1Blue (2)
Instant

Counter target instant or sorcery spell. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for any number of cards with the same name as that spell and exile them. That player shuffles, then draws a card for each card exiled from their hand this way.

Strixhaven: School of Mages (Uncommon)
Thassa's Intervention
Thassa's Intervention Variable ColorlessBlueBlue (2)
Instant

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 Variable Colorless.

Theros Beyond Death (Rare)
Thassa's Rebuff
Thassa's Rebuff 1Blue (2)
Instant

Counter target spell unless its controller pays Variable Colorless, where X is your devotion to blue. (Each Blue in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to blue.)

Born of the Gods (Uncommon)
The Eleventh Hour
The Eleventh Hour 3Blue (4)
Enchantment — Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)

I — Search your library for a Doctor card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

II — Create a Food token and a 1/1 white Human creature token with "Doctor spells you cast cost 1 less to cast."

III — Create a token that's a copy of target creature, except it's a legendary Alien named Prisoner Zero.

Doctor Who Commander (Rare)
The First Doctor
The First Doctor 1WhiteBlue (3)
Legendary Creature — Time Lord Doctor (2/2)

When The First Doctor enters the battlefield, search your library and/or graveyard for a card named TARDIS, reveal it, and put it into your hand. If you search your library this way, shuffle.

Whenever you cast a spell with cascade, put a +1/+1 counter on target artifact or creature.

Doctor Who Commander (Rare)
The Mirari Conjecture
The Mirari Conjecture 4Blue (5)
Enchantment — Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)

I — Return target instant card from your graveyard to your hand.

II — Return target sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.

III — Until end of turn, whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Dominaria (Rare)
Thought Collapse
Thought Collapse 1BlueBlue (3)
Instant

Counter target spell. Its controller mills three cards.

Jumpstart (Common)
Other Versions
Ravnica Allegiance (Common)
Thoughtbind
Thoughtbind 2Blue (3)
Instant

Counter target spell with mana value 4 or less.

Champions of Kamigawa (Common)
Three Steps Ahead
Three Steps Ahead Blue (1)
Instant

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)

+ 1Blue — 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.

Outlaws of Thunder Junction (Rare)
Thwart
Thwart 2BlueBlue (4)
Instant

You may return three Islands you control to their owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.

Counter target spell.

Mercadian Masques (Uncommon)
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)
Tiller of Flesh
Tiller of Flesh 3White (4)
Creature — Phyrexian Knight (2/4)

Whenever you cast a spell that targets one or more permanents, incubate 2. (Create an Incubator token with two +1/+1 counters on it and "2: Transform this artifact." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)

March of the Machine (Uncommon)
Tolarian Terror
Tolarian Terror 6Blue (7)
Creature — Serpent (5/5)

This spell costs 1 less to cast for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.

Ward 2 (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 2.)

Dominaria United (Common)
Torrent Sculptor
Torrent Sculptor 2BlueBlue (4)
Creature — Merfolk Wizard (2/2)

Ward 2 (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 2.)

When Torrent Sculptor enters the battlefield, exile an instant or sorcery card from your graveyard. Put a number of +1/+1 counters on Torrent Sculptor equal to half that card's mana value, rounded up.

Strixhaven: School of Mages (Rare)
Traumatic Visions
Traumatic Visions 3BlueBlue (5)
Instant

Counter target spell.

Basic landcycling 1Blue (1Blue, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Commander 2021 (Common)
Other Versions
Conflux (Common)
Modern Masters (Common)
Duel Decks: Speed vs. Cunning (Common)
Conspiracy: Take the Crown (Common)
Trial // Error (Trial)
Trial // Error (Trial) WhiteBlue (2)
Instant

Return all creatures blocking or blocked by target creature to their owner's hand.

Commander 2016 (Uncommon)
Other Versions
Dissension (Uncommon)
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)
Turn Aside
Turn Aside Blue (1)
Instant

Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control.

Eldritch Moon (Common)
Other Versions
Scars of Mirrodin (Common)
Undersimplify
Undersimplify 1Blue (2)
Instant

Choose target spell. If it's a creature spell, it perpetually gets -2/-0. Counter that spell unless its controller pays 2.

Alchemy Horizons: Baldur's Gate (Common)
Unified Will
Unified Will 1Blue (2)
Instant

Counter target spell if you control more creatures than that spell's controller.

Rise of the Eldrazi (Uncommon)
Unsettled Mariner
Unsettled Mariner WhiteBlue (2)
Creature — Shapeshifter (2/2)

Changeling (This card is every creature type.)

Whenever you or a permanent you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter that spell or ability unless its controller pays 1.

Modern Horizons (Rare)
Unwind
Unwind 2Blue (3)
Instant

Counter target noncreature spell. Untap up to three lands.

Dominaria (Common)
Unyaro Griffin
Unyaro Griffin 3White (4)
Creature — Griffin (2/2)

Flying

Sacrifice Unyaro Griffin: Counter target red instant or sorcery spell.

Mirage (Uncommon)
Other Versions
Classic Sixth Edition (Uncommon)
Urza's Rebuff
Urza's Rebuff 1BlueBlue (3)
Instant

Choose one —

• Counter target spell.

• Tap up to two target creatures.

The Brothers' War (Common)
Valkmira, Protector's Shield
Valkmira, Protector's Shield 3White (4)
Legendary Artifact

If a source an opponent controls would deal damage to you or a permanent you control, prevent 1 of that damage.

Whenever you or another permanent you control becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter that spell or ability unless its controller pays 1.

Kaldheim (Rare)
Very Cryptic Command (Very Cryptic Command (e))
Very Cryptic Command (Very Cryptic Command (e)) 1BlueBlueBlue (4)
Instant

Choose two —

• Counter target black-bordered spell.

• Return target creature to its owner's hand.

• Untap each permanent you control with a watermark.

• Roll two six-sided dice. Target player mills X cards, where X is the total of those results.

Unstable (Rare)
Vex
Vex 2Blue (3)
Instant

Counter target spell. That spell's controller may draw a card.

Darksteel (Common)
Vigilant Martyr
Vigilant Martyr White (1)
Creature — Human Cleric (1/1)

Sacrifice Vigilant Martyr: Regenerate target creature.

WhiteWhite, Tap, Sacrifice Vigilant Martyr: Counter target spell that targets an enchantment.

Mirage (Uncommon)
Vodalian Hexcatcher
Vodalian Hexcatcher 1Blue (2)
Creature — Merfolk Wizard (1/1)

Flash

Other Merfolk you control get +1/+1.

Sacrifice a Merfolk: Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays 1.

Dominaria United (Rare)
Vodalian Mage
Vodalian Mage 2Blue (3)
Creature — Merfolk Wizard (1/1)

Blue, Tap: Counter target spell unless its controller pays 1.

Fallen Empires (Common)
Void Shatter
Void Shatter 1BlueBlue (3)
Instant

Devoid (This card has no color.)

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

Oath of the Gatewatch (Uncommon)
Voidmage Apprentice
Voidmage Apprentice 1Blue (2)
Creature — Human Wizard (1/1)

Morph 2BlueBlue (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for 3. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

When Voidmage Apprentice is turned face up, counter target spell.

Duel Decks Anthology, Jace vs. Chandra (Common)
Other Versions
Legions (Common)
Duel Decks: Jace vs. Chandra (Common)
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)
Voidmage Prodigy
Voidmage Prodigy BlueBlue (2)
Creature — Human Wizard (2/1)

BlueBlue, Sacrifice a Wizard: Counter target spell.

Morph Blue (You may cast this card face down as a 2/2 creature for 3. Turn it face up any time for its morph cost.)

Time Spiral "Timeshifted" (Special)
Other Versions
Onslaught (Rare)
Voracious Greatshark
Voracious Greatshark 3BlueBlue (5)
Creature — Shark (5/4)

Flash

When Voracious Greatshark enters the battlefield, counter target artifact or creature spell.

Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (Rare)
Vulpikeet
Vulpikeet 3White (4)
Creature — Fox Bird (2/3)

Mutate 2White (If you cast this spell for its mutate cost, put it over or under target non-Human creature you own. They mutate into the creature on top plus all abilities from under it.)

Flying

Whenever this creature mutates, put a +1/+1 counter on it.

Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (Common)
War-Wing Siren
War-Wing Siren 2Blue (3)
Creature — Siren Soldier (1/3)

Flying

Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets War-Wing Siren, put a +1/+1 counter on War-Wing Siren.

Journey into Nyx (Common)
Wash Away
Wash Away Blue (1)
Instant

Cleave 1BlueBlue (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.

Innistrad: Crimson Vow (Uncommon)
Waterfall Aerialist
Waterfall Aerialist 3Blue (4)
Creature — Djinn Wizard (3/1)

Flying

Ward 2 (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 2.)

Strixhaven: School of Mages (Common)
Waxmane Baku
Waxmane Baku 2White (3)
Creature — Spirit (2/2)

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may put a ki counter on Waxmane Baku.

1, Remove X ki counters from Waxmane Baku: Tap X target creatures.

Modern Masters 2015 Edition (Common)
Other Versions
Betrayers of Kamigawa (Common)
Wicked Slumber
Wicked Slumber 3Blue (4)
Instant

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.)

Tap up to two target creatures. Put a stun counter on either of them. Then put a stun counter on either of them. (If a permanent with a stun counter would become untapped, remove one from it instead.)

March of the Machine (Uncommon)
Winged Boots
Winged Boots 1Blue (2)
Artifact — Equipment

Equipped creature has flying and ward 4. (Whenever equipped creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays 4.)

Equip 1

Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (Rare)
Other Versions
Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Commander (Rare)
Wingfold Pteron
Wingfold Pteron 5Blue (6)
Creature — Dinosaur (3/6)

Wingfold Pteron enters the battlefield with your choice of a flying counter or a hexproof counter on it. (A creature with hexproof can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (Common)
Wingsteed Rider
Wingsteed Rider 1WhiteWhite (3)
Creature — Human Knight (2/2)

Flying

Heroic — Whenever you cast a spell that targets Wingsteed Rider, put a +1/+1 counter on Wingsteed Rider.

Double Masters 2022 (Common)
Other Versions
Theros (Common)
Ultimate Masters (Common)
Wizard's Retort
Wizard's Retort 1BlueBlue (3)
Instant

This spell costs 1 less to cast if you control a Wizard.

Counter target spell.

Jumpstart (Uncommon)
Other Versions
Dominaria (Uncommon)
You Find the Villains' Lair
You Find the Villains' Lair 1BlueBlue (3)
Instant

Choose one —

• Foil Their Scheme — Counter target spell.

• Learn Their Secrets — Draw two cards, then discard two cards.

Alchemy Horizons: Baldur's Gate (Common)
Other Versions
Adventures in the Forgotten Realms (Common)
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