At our very first Lorywn draft, one of my Spikier friends pointed this out and said "This is going to be the best card in the set for Standard." Turns out he wasn't far wrong at all.
christos87
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Does it count itself in the number of Faeries that you control when the countering ability resolves?
2pcsofcandy
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(10 votes)
Yeah, it counts itself.
Quite the annoying card, and a must for all fae decks.
Dark_Raider
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Ugh... I so hate this >_> Combined with Bitterblossom, this becomes far too problematic for a common, methinks... >_>
UNBAN_SHAHRAZAD
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(6 votes)
Yeah, it's a Flying Men plus a Force Spike on its own and it just gets sicker after that. Probably should have been an uncommon.
KotserB
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
I love to combine it with Mistbind Clique.
I return Mistbind Clique to my hand with Withdraw for example to counter a spell and I can use my Mistbind Clique again.
Dreki
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Yes this card counts itself for the effect. Here is an example of how that works: Cast Spellstutter sprite >Spellstutter enters play > the effect goes on the stack > the effect looks at the board for all creatures with the subtype faerie you control > the effect see's Spellstutter so it's automatically 1+X where 1 is Spellstutter and x is the rest of your faeries > effect resolves. One of the best commons in blue in my opinion because you can put it in any blue deck for those pesky 1 and 2 cost spells you don't want to waste your Force Of Will on ^.^
kronos539
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(1 vote)
do you have to choose a target spell? what if i already have my opponents lands locked and i just want to play her for an attacker? would she default to countering herself??
P.S. rebecca guay, will you marry me?
Ladon---
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
@kronos539 - she would have had to have resolved as a spell and become a permanent before her come into play ability would trigger, at which point it would be too late for her to counter herself. So no problems :D
brian_james
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
This card's amazing. This with Scion of Oona makes your faes untouchable. And it's fun to be casting so many of your creatures on the opponent's turn.
I'd like to add that I love how the card's name is a bit of a tongue-twister. Makes you "stutter." Maybe that's just me, though. :)
Kamidii
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Insta-block!
justicarphaeton
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This card is so broken for faerie tribal. It's like they don't even have to "waste" slots for Counterspell or Mana Leak.
ROBRAM89
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
I find it hard to picture everybody in R&D looking at this card and going "nope, that shouldn't be a problem."
Zoah
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
This card was the inspiration for my current best deck: a mono blue faerie flash deck. It's, put simply, the best card in the deck.
It has everything. It has flight and 1 power, making it eligible to be a sword. With it's flash, by itself, it means that I don't have to worry about wasting manna when holding for a counter. In fact, it actually does the counter.
By itself, it's a two cost soft counter that gives me a creature. In a faerie deck, the counter is basically a hard counter. 5/5
JFM2796
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(2 votes)
At worst, its "counter target spell with converted mana cost less than or equal to 1" attached to a 1/1 Flash Flyer for . I would probably run this if I was playing blue and during the Lorwyn block.
wesleyv
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Great combo withGlen Elendra Pranksers. Just get two sprites by bouncing Faerie Harbinger in and out. Combine with Stonybrook banneret to play all of your counter faeiries for {U}, and bam, you have two, or even three opponents completely locked down with as many counters as you can pay for.
I ususally clean up the board by running Vedalken Æthermage. You can use it's wizard cycling to grab the last faerie wizard you need for your combo, or you can use the much underrated imagecrafter to turn the enemy creature into a sliver and stuff it into their hand on their turn using the aethermage, and countering it when they try to recast. Throw in an information dealer to grab unsummon or whatever else you need with all those wizards in play, and when you have enough mana left over, drop a faerie swarm for the muscle to finish them.
This is a wonderful card for a mono blue faerie deck, 5/5.
At worst, it's a 2 mana Force Spike variant with a 1/1 flyer attached. At WORST.
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
a 1/1 flyer with flash and a mental misstep attached for would be a strong card. This does that, and so much more. Its no wonder why faeries dominated so hard.
What were you thinking R&D
psychichobo
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Could've at least had the clause 'Unless its controller pays X, where X is the number of Fairies you control.'
This is MENTAL.
Callahan09
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Add some Cloudshifts to your deck and you can really go to town with counters.
MostlyLost
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Nope.fae
DmitryM
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Oh hi there, I see you are trying to cast lightning bolt on my delver of secrets, let me change your mind while putting up a threat on the board. Don't worry you can try again next turn, and the turn after, and the turn after, probably not the turn after because you are probably dead.
Seriously though, does anybody have any idea how to counter this? It's like playing a game where anytime you play anything, they (1) counter it (2) counter it AND use that counter as a threat against you.
Worse, anytime you try to counter it, they will counter your counter, then you counter the counter to your counter and they counter the counter... my head hurts but you get the idea.
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Quite the annoying card, and a must for all fae decks.
Combined with Bitterblossom, this becomes far too problematic for a common, methinks... >_>
I return Mistbind Clique to my hand with Withdraw for example to counter a spell and I can use my Mistbind Clique again.
P.S. rebecca guay, will you marry me?
I'd like to add that I love how the card's name is a bit of a tongue-twister. Makes you "stutter." Maybe that's just me, though. :)
It's, put simply, the best card in the deck.
It has everything. It has flight and 1 power, making it eligible to be a sword. With it's flash, by itself, it means that I don't have to worry about wasting manna when holding for a counter. In fact, it actually does the counter.
By itself, it's a two cost soft counter that gives me a creature.
In a faerie deck, the counter is basically a hard counter.
5/5
I ususally clean up the board by running Vedalken Æthermage. You can use it's wizard cycling to grab the last faerie wizard you need for your combo, or you can use the much underrated imagecrafter to turn the enemy creature into a sliver and stuff it into their hand on their turn using the aethermage, and countering it when they try to recast. Throw in an information dealer to grab unsummon or whatever else you need with all those wizards in play, and when you have enough mana left over, drop a faerie swarm for the muscle to finish them.
This is a wonderful card for a mono blue faerie deck, 5/5.
At WORST.
What were you thinking R&D
This is MENTAL.
Seriously though, does anybody have any idea how to counter this? It's like playing a game where anytime you play anything, they (1) counter it (2) counter it AND use that counter as a threat against you.
Worse, anytime you try to counter it, they will counter your counter, then you counter the counter to your counter and they counter the counter... my head hurts but you get the idea.
Totally gamebreaking in Pauper.