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CardName: Grasp of Notions Cost: 1uub Type: Instant Pow/Tgh: / Rules Text: Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. You may cast that spell for as long as it remains exiled. Flavour Text: Set/Rarity: Link's Unplaced Cards Uncommon |
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Hmm. Spelljack except you have to pay the mana cost, making it more like Grinning Totem. Interesting.
I feel like Wizards might cost this more, but it seems fine to me at this CMC.
Just "Exile target spell" was freakin expensive, if I remember right. (The wording must be different, gatherer can't find that)
But yeah, this costs more than Counterspell. That's the only bar, you've jumped it, go wild.
Nope, it's not. See Dissipate and Mindbreak Trap.
Dissipate is the bunny. They worded it that way to make it not counter uncounterable things like Scragnoth.
(There's also Mindbreak Trap, which does work that way, but you have to pay a bit more for.)
I was thinking of Assert Authority. But I guess that has a way of becoming cheap.
Although; gosh. Syncopate actually obsoletes one of my other favourite counterspells.
I never even noticed the exile clause on Syncopate.
Huh? But... how could you not? It's Power Sink crossed with Dissipate - as in, it's literally named as a direct mix between them, Sink-ipate. It's Power Sink, but giving up the "remove all their mana" clause to exile instead.
Maybe I did and I forgot about it. I haven't tried to make a control deck for a while... It's too miserable to try in Standard right now.