The more recent blocks have gained at least one great blue counter magic each (even if they might not be hard counters).
In fact, the other times when blue was good didn't really involve blue having counter magic. Cards like Thirst for Knowledge and Gifts Ungiven are such cards that thrived in the era of minimal counter magic, just to name a few. (Actually, Remove Soul is good because everyone is playing creatures and everyone is playing creatures because Planeswalkers are annoying if you can't use creatures to slap them away.)īlue has never lost its fighting edge, except maybe in the OLS season where big fat monsters stomped everywhere in the block format, because we have been given a few goodies to tide through tough times with.
Heck, times have become so bad that Remove Soul is now actually great in standard. Also, the enemies of blue have been getting powerful cheap creatures like Kird Ape, Mogg Fanatic and even Tarmogoyf. You don't get two mana "Counter target spell" anymore. For this simple reason, great finishers have been born in the color of the sea because somebody in R&D probably figured out that Mahamoti Djinn as a win condition could have been improved.ĭuring the recent years, our favorite counter magic has been the target of abuse. They have a support role of protecting you and protecting your game plan. Counter magic cannot win games by themselves. However, when you are not losing, you actually have more time to play your game. When you are winning, you are closer to actually finishing the game. Not losing? How's that different from winning? Reason? Counter magic is the most efficient way of not losing. To be honest, I like playing Counterspells in any deck I can play them in. The card Counterspell has been around since the dawn of Magic and with it's birth came the ranting of players who disliked the fact that they could not play the spells they wanted. Even if you are lucky, you would not be able to avoid them because they are so good at what they do. Before I go about saying anything, I want to let all you readers out there know that you have to acknowledge the existence of the blue spells that say "counter target spell". I wanted to talk about this topic in response to every person under the sun who is complaining about counter magic.
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