Most sets have both a hard and a soft counter; this is one possibility for a soft. I really like multicolor counterspells, so here's a option, though I have at least one other idea.

Heh, that's funny. Cancel is an obviously better card, but this card looks so much better than Cancel. That, and in a multiplayer match, someone is bound to let you have your snakes...

I like this effect a lot. It evokes Patagia Viper, which was an amusing card.

Do we have a rarity symbol for "Only exists in premium foil"? Because we should :)

Yeah, I like this too. jmg's right, it's worse than cancel, but it looks so lovely, and the effect is about the right size where you're not losing badly whichever they pick.

L2: go ahead and post the other idea if it's still relevant -- I think we still want lots of ideas and will merge and winnow them as we go on.

I already discussed it on Will of the Seas, so it's not so relevant. I do want to make the point that I feel either this or another gold counterspell should make it in, though, so that they're not all pure blue and so Aer has some to itself. As the multicolor faction, it should probably be able to fill the "roles" of all the individual factions by itself.

Ah, right, never mind. Yes, I agree there should be a gold counterspell (hopefully this one :)).

I like to break the color pie
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Counter target creature spell, or target spell that targets a creature.

Hee. That could definitely exist in a Planar Chaos set. It's not too different to a Stave Off/Unmake split card. But I think for sanity, it'd be sensible to make our Aer counterspells part-blue :P