I <3 this card~! Awesome as all hell art! Flexible ability! And i would totally do the chick on the card!
:3
WER386
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(7 votes)
Love when they say "I make my Thornling 7/1 with trample, haste and its indestructible, and I attack with it!" and then I say "sure, except its not indestructible and I block it with my new 2/2, good job dealing me 5 damage".
Omenchild
★★★★☆ (4.7/5.0)(6 votes)
Shh, I hear something. COUNTER'd! Then shock to save.
Tezz
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.9/5.0)(4 votes)
you cant counter indestructibility its not an activated ability
What's that, Jace? You're activating your ultimate? DENIED! (Oh dear, and you've seemed to have lost all your counters as well. At least, I think it works like that. They lose the counters to activate the ability, and Husher counters it, right?)
KarmasPayment
★★★★☆ (4.6/5.0)(5 votes)
"What's that, Jace? You're activating your ultimate? DENIED! (Oh dear, and you've seemed to have lost all your counters as well. At least, I think it works like that. They lose the counters to activate the ability, and Husher counters it, right?)" -MagicalSeventh
Yes, that can be countered, and yes the counters are gained or lost as a cost. Activated abilities are anything with a Cost : Effect.
Such as strip mine's , Sacrifice Strip Mine: Destroy target land. They still pay the cost of tapping and sacing strip mine, but you can respond to the ability itself and counter that with this girl. She's amazing, and the ability to be reused when needed is just icing. She's comparable to Venser, Shaper Savant and in some cases, superior to him. 5/5 in my eyes.
ZombieSnail
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Awesome art, it's such a shame she ended up having four eyes. Very cool and unique card.
The long-lost great grand Uncle (Istvan?) to Vexing Shusher. I'd imagine they would have a pretty quiet family reunion. Sorry for the bad joke, but I had to.
NeoKoda
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Can't counter Jace's Ultimate. That's a loyalty ability, not an activated ability.
Greenwaka
★☆☆☆☆ (1.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Midna?
Stray_Dog
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(2 votes)
The art of foresee features her mask, and an awesome mask it is :)
grandpraetor
★★★★☆ (4.5/5.0)(1 vote)
A great sideboard card.
Besides, it's always funny when she hits the board... your opponent with that poker face: "uh... ok then."
Yozuk
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
One of my favorite cards of all time. You can't compare to the ability to counter activated abilities over and over again. I had 2 of these in my hand against my brother's planeswalker deck. I would play one counter an ability the play the other bouncing my first one back to my hand and it gave me a nearly endless loop that prevented him from using any planeswalker abilities. It was awesome.
@NeoKoda The rule of thumb is: if it has a colon in it, it's and activated ability. Cost : Effect. Planeswalker abilities are definitely activated, the colons are along the left edge of the text box, between the loyalty changes and the effects.
imsully2
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Animar EDH, repeatable ability counter for {U}
TheWrathofShane
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Good against planeswalkers, other shenanigans, with a 2/2 flash to boot. 4.5/5
Missile_Penguin
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Each Time Spiral card was an homage to at least one previously printed card.
"Planeswalkers each have a number of activated abilities called “loyalty abilities.” You can activate a loyalty ability of a planeswalker you control only at the time you could cast a sorcery and only if you haven’t activated one of that planeswalker’s loyalty abilities yet that turn."
Comments (26)
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its not an activated ability
-MagicalSeventh
Yes, that can be countered, and yes the counters are gained or lost as a cost. Activated abilities are anything with a Cost : Effect.
Such as strip mine's
Very cool and unique card.
Besides, it's always funny when she hits the board... your opponent with that poker face: "uh... ok then."
The rule of thumb is: if it has a colon in it, it's and activated ability. Cost : Effect. Planeswalker abilities are definitely activated, the colons are along the left edge of the text box, between the loyalty changes and the effects.
This card references Voidmage Apprentice and Voidmage Prodigy; those creatures could counter spells, this creature gets to Stifle abilities!