Wirzards is improving. They'll never reprint Counterspell, but their putting in some good conditional two mana couners.
Posted By:
NecroticNobody
(9/23/2010 5:52:19 PM)
Are you guys kidding me? I was expecting to look at these comments and see epic jubilation!
yo people.. THEY ARE NEVER GOING TO REPRINT COUNTERSPELL. They made something STRICTLY better than cancel and something that in scars limited can basically be called counterspell yet i see people saying "Almost counterspell." For shaaame. As people have said, yall blue control mages (i dont play counters too often) have mana leak, deprive, and now a strictly better cancel. If you still need counterspell you are being truely hypocritical: You say that counterspells bring thinking into the game, yet you cant STAND having to pay ANYTHING more than 2 mana for a counterspell, you are not thinking yourself.
Posted By:
TheSwarm
(10/13/2010 6:11:00 PM)
The Planeswalker's Guide video specifically mentioned this card as having a reduced cost when Metalcraft is active. If your opponent destroys one of your artifacts in response to Stoic Rebuttal, would you have to end up paying the extra 1 mana?
My guess would be no, since the spell is already on the stack by then, but confirmation from the rules guru would be nice :)
Posted By:
gelleetin
(9/25/2010 12:50:18 PM)
Silly card on the grounds that it is the exact same thing as Cancel but better. I mean, if you main deck Cancel in a deck with no artifacts you might as well replace it with this card. I mean, why not? It's exactly the same but can be cheated in to play for 1 less mana if you just so happen to have a few artifacts in play.
Posted By:
Troutz
(9/25/2010 8:40:04 AM)
Almost a Counterspell. Almost. Getting there.
Posted By:
Chrome_Coyote
(9/24/2010 3:31:57 PM)
The brazilian portuguese version of this card doesn't contain the line "counter target spell".
Posted By:
PlanesMoyza
(9/25/2011 10:33:22 AM)
Damn it, Wizards, stop trying to get us to play Cancel! >:V
Posted By:
DonRoyale
(9/24/2010 12:18:37 AM)
I've ran this in decks that, despite not being metalcraft, had enough mana rocks that I sometimes did get metalcraft, thus making it still better then cancel.
Posted By:
Evvy0413
(6/18/2011 7:11:02 PM)
This card is played a lot in control decks these days. Blue-black, blue-white, you name it. And 95% of the time this is just Cancel.
Posted By:
Gabriel422
(7/22/2011 10:26:58 PM)
There you go guys, that's probably the absolute closest you will get to Counterspell coming back without it being considered too good.
Posted By:
sincleanser
(8/18/2011 10:20:57 AM)