Pointed Discussion

It beside the point of counterspelling. Fail. If you can counter a powerful, costly spell, it means you're untapped. If you're that untapped, it means you did not do much of your last turn...

When it was first printed, it was probably the only response to black lotus in print.

Now that Cancel has taken over from Counterspell I could see that this could work.

This was ok against Swords to Plowshares, Lightning Bolts and even Giant Growths. Now that ordinary counter costs , I can see cards with converted manacost as targets for this.

Definately better now than Power Sink.

Good point tavaritz, but this isn't so much better than Power Sink. Power Sink negates a whole opponent's turn, so in that contest in better.
However, this is better to counter a few-mana spell, but the sink is better to counter a lot-mana spell. The counter-point is that if you counter a lot-mana spell with power sink, chances are that your opponent spent a lot of mana in it, so draining its mana may not be so useful SOMETIMES...

If I had to play only these counterspell, I would play 4 Sink and 2 Blast, because the Sink is useful at the early and late game, when your opponent spends almost all his/her mana for his/her most powerful spell, while the blast is most useful only at the early game if you're ahead of 1 mana, and in the late game maybe you can counter only some minor therat. Useful but somehow situational...

2.5/5

Those poor poor Ornithopters

:(

The Crappiest Counterspell

My least favorite children's book...

The thinking mage's version of brute force, huh.