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Most likely, a deck that plays this is going to have some counterspells to cascade into at the 2-cost instant spot, and if you flip up one of those while this is the only spell on the stack, you accomplish a whole lot of nothing (so you might as well decline to play the counterspell after flipping it up). But if you play this in reponse to something else, and a counterspell flips up there, now it has a perfectly fine target in the opponent's spell, giving you a 3-mana Dismiss plus whatever other card you flip.
I'm not much of a rules guru, could you help me understand how this counters spells in anyway?
hmm. That's crazy good. The only real problem with it is that it's difficult to make it play nice with counter spells. But then, you just play it in response to an opponents spell and it'll probably counter it. So yeah, this is crazy good. Use it in any control deck that has two or one cost instant removal or control.
I realize that it'll make Cascade slightly more powerful. I'm just testing type cascade a little.
This actually make cascade slightly more powerful...
Like type cycling. I'm toying with Type Cascade.
Upped rarity. Dropped Cascade
Hmm. So adding
to Coursers' Accord (and going from common to uncommon) gains you lifelink and vigilance on the tokens, and an entire free extra spell costing up to 6. Seems strong.
I think this'd be fairly priced without the cascade. With cascade? It's kinda bonkers.
See also Trostani's Summoner: for the same price and rarity, that made a 1/1, a 2/2 vigilance, a 3/3 and a 4/4 trample; this makes a 3/3 vigilance lifelink, another 3/3 vigilance lifelink, and whatever random CMC1-6 spell is on top of your library. If that's a Runeclaw Bear then you're broadly doing better with this than the Summoner. If that's an Urbis Protector then you're doing much better with this than the Summoner. And Trostani's Summoner is an extremely good card.
(Heh, it turns out Trostani's Summoner also has some fantastic Gatherer comments.)
Yeah I know I'm bad at names.
Really anything that puts multiple cards in hand whether from the library or the grave yard, even bounced to hand, is a target for this.
I could see a set with heavy bounce or return from graveyard to hand effects that this would fit in with.
EDIT: After thinking about it I'm going to change it to shuffle X cards at random into the library and make this cost
.
This does nothing to harm people who draw lots of cards unless you add in a damage element. It's unlikely that any set will contain enough effects that search to the hand for you to want to punish them.
I made it
since Blue is the color of Draw and Red tends to nearly always discard a card to draw one.
I aim it to be a risky answer to an opponent drawing several cards in a turn or searching for something/s and putting it/them into his or her hand. Or if you really need to change out your hand and as a bonus your opponent has to change theirs out too.
I'm thinking of making it any number of players though per Jack V's suggestion. And changing the cost to
.
I can see this in a set where there is plenty of card draw or search into hand effects.
It's exactly Winds of Change, given flash for the bargain-basement price of 5 additional mana in a second color.
Maybe make it "any number of target players", so you can decide if you want to loot your hand, and you can decide if your opponent has been hoarding good spells and you want to scramble them or is manascrewed/landflooded and you want to leave them as is? I might want that effect, although even then, it may not need to cost more than windfall?
Well, it's basically actually Windfall or a one-shot Teferi's Puzzle Box.
or 
would be fine, I think; 
if you really want it to be blue-red.
The question is what are you expecting people to use it for? What set would want this effect? In order to justify the increased effort over a simple Tolarian Winds, you'd need to have some mechanic in the set that provided information about what's in the opponent's hand.
Ah so it is. Though it's uncommon and doesn't shuffle your hand twice. You are right though it should probably cost a few less. Say maybe
?
It's Whirlpool Warrior! But more expensive and not able to attack or block.