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CardName: Foil Cost: 2UU Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: You may discard an Island card and another card rather than pay Foil’s mana cost. Counter target spell. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Magic 20XX Uncommon |
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Reprint of Foil, and part of the Abolish cycle. Hellbent is happy.
Whoa, discard TWO cards, or pay
extra for a Couterspell? Harsh.
In the same area of cardiness, I see Forbid and ... I coulda sworn there was "Discard a blue card" but I can't see it. So wow, this seems to be the standard level of harsh for a tapped-out counterspell now. Evil!
Foil is pretty good. You may be thinking also of Thwart, Disrupting Shoal, or the all-time classic Force of Will. FoW is generally reckoned to be way too good to print anything like in modern sets. Interestingly, it's an absolute staple of Vintage/Legacy (Type 1) because it keeps the insane combo decks in check.
(Thwart would have been amusing in-set as an instant-speed no-warning Wisdom enabler.)
Noted. If I make a second expansion, I might sneak Thwart in there. Twart + Foil are natural extensions of each other, it's true.