Evil Counterspell deck • (Mono-Blue Commander deck) • Archidekt

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Talrand, Sky Summoner

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.

Legendary Creature - Wizard Merfolk

$3.99 $3.98 $2.39

Commander

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Isochron Scepter

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile an instant card with mana value 2 or less from your hand.

: You may copy the exiled card. If you do, you may cast the copy without paying its mana cost.

Artifact

$11.99 $14.33 $9.36

Copy

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Abjure

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a blue permanent.
Counter target spell.

Instant

$1.49 $1.40 $0.72

Archmage's Charm

Choose one —
• Counter target spell.
• Target player draws two cards.
• Gain control of target nonland permanent with mana value 1 or less.

Instant

$3.49 $2.26 $1.66

Bane's Contingency

Counter target spell. If that spell targets a commander you control, instead counter that spell, scry 2, then draw a card.

Instant

$0.59 $0.20 $0.15

Confounding Riddle

Choose one —
• Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays

Instant

$0.39 $0.27 $0.15

Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant

$4.49 $4.14 $2.30

Cryptic Command

Choose two —
• Counter target spell.
• Return target permanent to its owner's hand.
• Tap all creatures your opponents control.
• Draw a card.

Instant

$7.49 $3.65 $4.16

Disallow

Counter target spell, activated ability, or triggered ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Instant

$0.99 $1.75 $0.26

Dismiss

Counter target spell.
Draw a card.

Instant

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Dissolve

Counter target spell. Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Instant

$0.59 $0.24 $0.15

Flare of Denial

You may sacrifice a nontoken blue creature rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.

Instant

$4.99 $3.72 $2.08

Foil

You may discard an Island card and another card rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.

Instant

$3.99 $1.63 $1.83

Long River's Pull

Gift a card (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they draw a card before its other effects.)
Counter target creature spell. If the gift was promised, instead counter target spell.

Instant

$1.49 $0.41 $0.15

Mystic Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays

.
• Return target creature to its owner's hand.
• Draw a card.

Instant

$0.99 $0.95 $0.46

Refute

Counter target spell. Draw a card, then discard a card.

Instant

$0.35 $0.20 $0.15

Rewind

Counter target spell. Untap up to four lands.

Instant

$0.69 $0.40 $0.26

Spellgyre

Choose one —
• Counter target spell.
• Surveil 2, then draw two cards. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.24 $0.15

Sublime Epiphany

Choose one or more —
• Counter target spell.
• Counter target activated or triggered ability.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
• Create a token that's a copy of target creature you control.
• Target player draws a card.

Instant

$0.79 $0.26 $0.15

Thassa's Intervention

Choose one —
• Look at the top X cards of your library. Put up to two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
• Counter target spell unless its controller pays twice

Instant

$0.49 $0.47 $0.15

Void Shatter

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant

$0.35 $0.30 $0.15

Wizard's Retort

This spell costs

less to cast if you control a Wizard.
Counter target spell.

Instant

$0.59 $0.37 $0.35

You Find the Villains' Lair

Choose one —
• Foil Their Scheme — Counter target spell.
• Learn Their Secrets — Draw two cards, then discard two cards.

Instant

$0.59 $0.21 $0.15

Counter Spell

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Archmage Emeritus

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Creature - Human Wizard

$1.79 $1.24 $0.62

Archmage of Runes

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.

Creature - Wizard Giant

$5.99 $2.81 $2.86

Bident of Thassa

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.

: Creatures your opponents control attack this turn if able.

Legendary Artifact Enchantment

$0.59 $0.56 $0.40

Coastal Piracy

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, you may draw a card.

Enchantment

$1.29 $0.78 $0.15

Curiosity Crafter

Flying
You have no maximum hand size.
Whenever a creature token you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.

Creature - Wizard Bird

$0.79 $0.40 $0.15

Enduring Curiosity

Flash
Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, draw a card.
When Enduring Curiosity dies, if it was a creature, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. It's an enchantment. (It's not a creature.)

Creature Enchantment - Cat Glimmer

$9.99 $6.52 $6.25

Flow of Knowledge

Draw a card for each Island you control, then discard two cards.

Instant

$0.69 $0.22 $0.15

Reconnaissance Mission

Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
Cycling

(

, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Enchantment

$1.29 $1.75 $0.73

Voracious Bibliophile

Flying, vigilance
Whenever you cast a spell with one or more targets, draw that many cards.

Creature - Dragon

$0.49 $0.33 $0.15

Wavebreak Hippocamp

Whenever you cast your first spell during each opponent's turn, draw a card.

Creature Enchantment - Fish Horse

$1.49 $0.59 $0.52

Draw

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Alandra, Sky Dreamer

Whenever you draw your second card each turn, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.
Whenever you draw your fifth card each turn, Alandra and Drakes you control each get +X/+X until end of turn, where X is the number of cards in your hand.

Legendary Creature - Wizard Merfolk

$9.99 $8.77 $9.13

Finisher

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Mana Sculpt

Counter target spell. If you control a Wizard, add an amount of

equal to the amount of mana spent to cast that spell at the beginning of your next main phase.

Instant

$1.99 $0.69 $0.22

Instant

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Hydroelectric Specimen

Flash
When this creature enters, you may change the target of target instant or sorcery spell with a single target to this creature.

Creature - Weird

Hydroelectric Specimen // Hydroelectric Laboratory (mh3) 240

$2.79 $1.40 $0.95

Island

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Basic Land - Island

$0.49 $0.15 $0.15

Mystic Sanctuary

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: Add

.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.

Land - Island

$2.99 $1.12 $1.55

Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Land

$5.99 $4.97 $4.16

Sea Gate Restoration

Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your hand plus one. You have no maximum hand size for the rest of the game.

Sorcery

Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn (znr) 76

$49.99 $35.66 $35.79

Silundi Vision

Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal an instant or sorcery card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Instant

$1.29 $0.39 $0.31

Sink into Stupor

Return target spell or nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Instant

Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs (mh3) 241

$14.99 $9.23 $8.56

Land

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Spellskite

: Change a target of target spell or ability to this creature. (

can be paid with either

or 2 life.)

Creature Artifact - Horror Phyrexian

$10.99 $7.68 $7.16

Protection

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Arcane Signet

: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact

$0.99 $0.70 $0.36

Baral, Chief of Compliance

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost

less to cast.
Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

$6.49 $3.10 $2.70

Fellwar Stone

: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.

Artifact

$1.79 $1.34 $0.77

Mana Vault

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step.
At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay

. If you do, untap this artifact.
At the beginning of your draw step, if this artifact is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you.

: Add

Artifact

$149.99 $111.47 $98.99

Sapphire Medallion

Blue spells you cast cost

less to cast.

Artifact

$14.99 $9.41 $8.73

Sol Ring

: Add

Artifact

$2.79 $2.09 $1.41

Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size.

: Add

Artifact

$5.49 $2.92 $2.61

Wayfarer's Bauble

, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact

$0.79 $0.31 $0.30

Ramp

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Mission Briefing

Surveil 2, then choose an instant or sorcery card in your graveyard. You may cast it this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Instant

$0.99 $0.37 $0.18

Snapcaster Mage

Flash
When this creature enters, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Creature - Human Wizard

$20.99 $18.18 $15.45

Recursion

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Blink of an Eye

Kicker

(You may pay an additional

as you cast this spell.)
Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. If this spell was kicked, draw a card.

Instant

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand.
Overload

(You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant

$42.99 $38.41 $34.32

Glen Elendra Archmage

Flying

, Sacrifice this creature: Counter target noncreature spell.
Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Creature - Wizard Faerie

$10.99 $9.49 $9.88

Hullbreaker Horror

Flash
This spell can't be countered.
Whenever you cast a spell, choose up to one —
• Return target spell you don't control to its owner's hand.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature - Horror Kraken

$10.99 $7.42 $6.40

Into the Flood Maw

Gift a tapped Fish (You may promise an opponent a gift as you cast this spell. If you do, they create a tapped 1/1 blue Fish creature token before its other effects.)
Return target creature an opponent controls to its owner's hand. If the gift was promised, instead return target nonland permanent an opponent controls to its owner's hand.

Instant

$4.49 $2.38 $1.74

Into the Roil

Kicker

(You may pay an additional

as you cast this spell.)
Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand. If this spell was kicked, draw a card.

Instant

$0.35 $0.34 $0.15

Katara's Reversal

Counter up to four target spells and/or abilities.
Untap up to four target artifacts and/or creatures.

Instant

$5.99 $5.23 $2.38

Louisoix's Sacrifice

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a legendary creature or pay

.
Counter target activated ability, triggered ability, or noncreature spell.

Instant

$0.59 $0.34 $0.15

Machine Over Matter

This spell costs

less to cast if you control an artifact creature.
Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.

Instant

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Narset's Reversal

Copy target instant or sorcery spell, then return it to its owner's hand. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Instant

$3.49 $2.12 $1.99

Three Steps Ahead

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+

— Counter target spell.
+

— Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature you control.
+

— Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Instant

$7.99 $6.69 $5.17

Venser, Shaper Savant

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
When Venser enters, return target spell or permanent to its owner's hand.

Legendary Creature - Human Wizard

$0.99 $0.38 $0.32

Removal

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Deep Analysis

Target player draws two cards.
Flashback—

, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.26 $0.15

Meeting of Minds

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for

or one mana of that creature's color.)
Draw two cards.

Instant

$0.59 $0.29 $0.15

Think Twice

Draw a card.
Flashback

(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Instant

$0.35 $0.15 $0.15

Treasure Cruise

Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for

.)
Draw three cards.

Sorcery

$0.35 $0.27 $0.15

Spell Slinger

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Chrome Host Seedshark

Flying
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, incubate X, where X is that spell's mana value. (Create an Incubator token with X +1/+1 counters on it and "

: Transform this token." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)

Creature - Phyrexian Shark

$0.49 $0.28 $0.15

Namor the Sub-Mariner

Flying
Namor's power is equal to the number of Merfolk you control.
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell with one or more blue mana symbols in its mana cost, create that many 1/1 blue Merfolk creature tokens.

Legendary Creature - Merfolk Mutant Villain

$4.99 $2.34 $2.06

Tokens

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Deck Info

Deck size: 100Est cost: $493.60

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Avg Mana Value: 3.13Total Mana Value: 213.00

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Avg Mana Value: 3.13Total Mana Value: 213.00

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