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CardName: Countershield Cost: {1} Type: Artifact Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: {U}{U}, or sacrfice an island, sacrifice Countershield: Counter Target Spell Flavour Text: Watch this, it's a classic... Set/Rarity: Strike The Earth Rare

Countershield
{1}
 
 R 
Artifact
{u}{u}, or sacrfice an island, sacrifice Countershield: Counter Target Spell
Watch this, it's a classic...
Updated on 10 Dec 2023 by Vitenka

Code: RU02

History: [-]

2011-10-27 18:37:02: Vitenka created the card Countershield

I'm probably not really allowed to bring this back. Suggestions? (For now, will keep and monitor)

Heh. It's probably not actually utterly forbidden. I mean, it's more reprintable than Channel or Balance.

But if you want to be slightly more in line with modern standards, how about a variation on Stoic Rebuttal?

Hummm, cost it as {u}{2} and reduce cost by lands in your graveyard?

Nonononono, you can't have just "Counter target spell" with less than two blue mana in the mana cost. But {2}{u}{u} or perhaps {1}{u}{u} with that cost reduction would be fine. (And obviously should be common, not rare.)

Yes, but then it's a 4 cost counterspell.

I like proper counterspell :) The problem is that they're not very fun to play against... Hmmm.

­I like proper counterspell :) The problem is that they're not very fun to play against... Hmmm.

Yeah, I think that's the problem :) The modern design advice appears to be "1U. Counter target [something Vitekna doesn't like]" :)

Howasabout going for the throat, and giving it to whoever you used it on to cast it back at you?

(And yes, I did run Remove Soul and Flash Counter and Power Sink and...)

Hah! If I extend the alternate casting cost cycle - this is the card that gets it in blue. And That actually makes it a harsher countespell than the real one! Need to rethink this.

2023-12-10 12:40:32: Vitenka edited Countershield:

aimage, make it more dorfy by making it a spellbomb. I'm... tempted to make it a non-mana-land, but there's lots of strong reasons why that's a bad bad idea

2023-12-10 12:41:17: Vitenka edited Countershield:

land sac alt-activation cost. We'll see.

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