Reverse the Polarity

Choose one —
• Counter all other spells.
• Switch each creature's power and toughness until end of turn.
• Creatures can't be blocked this turn.

Arcane Denial

Counter target spell. Its controller may draw up to two cards at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.
You draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

An Offer You Can't Refuse

Counter target noncreature spell. Its controller creates two Treasure tokens. (They're artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Counterspell

Disallow

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

Delay

Counter target spell. If the spell is countered this way, exile it with three time counters on it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. If it doesn't have suspend, it gains suspend. (At the beginning of its owner's upkeep, they remove a time counter. When the last is removed, they may play it without paying its mana cost. If it's a creature, it has haste.)

Swan Song

Counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Wash Away

Cleave {1}{U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its cleave cost. If you do, remove the words in square brackets.)
Counter target spell [that wasn't cast from its owner's hand].

Pact of Negation

Counter target spell.
At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay {3}{U}{U}. If you don't, you lose the game.

Counterflux

This spell can't be countered.
Counter target spell you don't control.
Overload {1}{U}{U}{R} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Stoic Rebuttal

Metalcraft — This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control three or more artifacts.
Counter target spell.

Wizard's Retort

This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control a Wizard.
Counter target spell.

Negate

Reject Imperfection

Counter target spell. If that spell's mana value was 3 or less, proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Abjure

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

Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell.

Mana Leak

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Disdainful Stroke

Counter target spell with mana value 4 or greater.

Overwhelming Denial

Surge {U}{U} (You may cast this spell for its surge cost if you or a teammate has cast another spell this turn.)
This spell can't be countered.
Counter target spell.

Ertai's Scorn

This spell costs {U} less to cast if an opponent cast two or more spells this turn.
Counter target spell.

Fuel for the Cause

Counter target spell, then proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Metallic Rebuke

Improvise (Your artifacts can help cast this spell. Each artifact you tap after you're done activating mana abilities pays for {1}.)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Frilled Mystic

Flash
When Frilled Mystic enters, you may counter target spell.

Counter target spell. That spell's controller may draw a card.

Essence Scatter

Whirlwind Denial

For each spell and ability your opponents control, counter it unless its controller pays {4}.

Flare of Denial

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

Mystic Snake

Flash
When Mystic Snake enters, counter target spell.

Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.

Three Steps Ahead

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+ {1}{U} — Counter target spell.
+ {3} — Create a token that's a copy of target artifact or creature you control.
+ {2} — Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Annul

Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.

Bar the Gate

Counter target creature or planeswalker spell. Venture into the dungeon. (Enter the first room or advance to the next room.)

Chalice of the Void

Chalice of the Void enters with X charge counters on it.
Whenever a player casts a spell with mana value equal to the number of charge counters on Chalice of the Void, counter that spell.

Remand

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it into its owner's hand instead of into that player's graveyard.
Draw a card.

Spell Burst

Buyback {3} (You may pay an additional {3} as you cast this spell. If you do, put this card into your hand as it resolves.)
Counter target spell with mana value X.

Absorb

Absorb Energy

Counter target spell. Cards in your hand that share a card type with that spell perpetually gain "This spell costs {1} less to cast."

Abstruse Interference

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}. You create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}." ({C} represents colorless mana.)

Cephalid Shrine

Whenever a player casts a spell, counter that spell unless that player pays {X}, where X is the number of cards in all graveyards with the same name as the spell.

Brine Seer

{2}{U}, {T}: Reveal any number of blue cards in your hand. Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each card revealed this way.

Ceremonious Rejection

Change the Equation

Choose one —
• Counter target spell with mana value 2 or less.
• Counter target red or green spell with mana value 6 or less.

Checks and Balances

Cast this spell only if there are three or more players in the game.
Whenever a player casts a spell, each of that player's opponents may discard a card. If they do, counter that spell.

Dispel

Dissipate

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Envelop

Halt Order

Counter target artifact spell.
Draw a card.

Memory Lapse

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

Nullify

Force of Will

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.

Mana Tithe

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Stifle

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

Calculated Dismissal

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
Spell mastery — If there are two or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, scry 2. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)

Cancel

Access Denied

Counter target spell. Create X 1/1 colorless Thopter artifact creature tokens with flying, where X is that spell's mana value.

Admiral's Order

Raid — If you attacked this turn, you may pay {U} rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.

Adric, Mathematical Genius

{2}{U}, {T}: Copy target activated or triggered ability you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Ultimate Sacrifice — {1}{U}, Sacrifice Adric: Counter target activated or triggered ability.
Doctor's companion (You can have two commanders if the other is the Doctor.)

Aether Gust

Choose target spell or permanent that's red or green. Its owner puts it on their choice of the top or bottom of their library.

Ambiguity

Whenever a player plays a spell that counters a spell that has been played or a player plays a spell that comes into play with counters, that player may counter the next spell played or put an additional counter on a permanent that has already been played, but not countered.

Aether Spike

Choose target spell. You get {E}{E} (two energy counters), then you may pay any amount of {E}. Counter that spell unless its controller pays {1} for each {E} paid this way.

Amulet of Safekeeping

Whenever you become the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter that spell or ability unless its controller pays {1}.
Creature tokens get -1/-0.

Artistic Refusal

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.)
Choose one or both —
• Counter target spell.
• Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Assimilate Essence

Counter target creature or battle spell unless its controller pays {4}. If they do, you incubate 2. (Create an Incubator token with two +1/+1 counters on it and "{2}: Transform this artifact." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)

Ayesha Tanaka

Banding (Any creatures with banding, and up to one without, can attack in a band. Bands are blocked as a group. If any creatures with banding you control are blocking or being blocked by a creature, you divide that creature's combat damage, not its controller, among any of the creatures it's being blocked by or is blocking.)
{T}: Counter target activated ability from an artifact source unless that ability's controller pays {W}. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Bag Check

Counter target spell, then ask a person outside the game if that spell looks dangerous to them. If they say yes, draw a card, then discard a card.

Bant Charm

Choose one —
• Destroy target artifact.
• Put target creature on the bottom of its owner's library.
• Counter target instant spell.

Blood Funnel

Noncreature spells you cast cost {2} less to cast.
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, counter that spell unless you sacrifice a creature.

Arenson's Aura

{W}, Sacrifice an enchantment: Destroy target enchantment.
{3}{U}{U}: Counter target enchantment spell.

Artifact Blast

Ashiok's Erasure

Flash
When Ashiok's Erasure enters, exile target spell.
Your opponents can't cast spells with the same name as the exiled card.
When Ashiok's Erasure leaves the battlefield, return the exiled card to its owner's hand.

Assert Authority

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)
Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Aven Interrupter

Flash
Flying
When Aven Interrupter enters, exile target spell. It becomes plotted. (Its owner may cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost.)
Spells your opponents cast from graveyards or from exile cost {2} more to cast.

Bane's Contingency

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

Bazaar of Wonders

When Bazaar of Wonders enters, exile all graveyards.
Whenever a player casts a spell, counter it if a card with the same name is in a graveyard or a nontoken permanent with the same name is on the battlefield.

Bind

Counter target activated ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)
Draw a card.

Anticognition

Counter target creature or planeswalker spell unless its controller pays {2}. If an opponent has eight or more cards in their graveyard, instead counter that spell, then scry 2.

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.

Avoid Fate

Counter target instant or Aura spell that targets a permanent you control.

Azorius Guildmage

{2}{W}: Tap target creature.
{2}{U}: Counter target activated ability. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Liberate

Exile target creature you control. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Bind // Liberate

Complicate

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.
Cycling {2}{U} ({2}{U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Complicate, you may counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Confirm Suspicions

Counter target spell.
Investigate three times. (To investigate, create a Clue token. It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Corrupted Resolve

Counter target spell if its controller is poisoned.

Boromir, Warden of the Tower

Vigilance
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell.
Sacrifice Boromir, Warden of the Tower: Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. The Ring tempts you.

Blue Elemental Blast

Choose one —
• Counter target red spell.
• Destroy target red permanent.

Brown Ouphe

{1}{G}, {T}: Counter target activated ability from an artifact source. (Mana abilities can't be targeted.)

Burnout

Counter target instant spell if it's blue.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Busted!

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}, where X is the number of words in the name with the most words among permanents you control.

Callow Jushi

Whenever you cast a Spirit or Arcane spell, you may put a ki counter on Callow Jushi.
At the beginning of the end step, if there are two or more ki counters on Callow Jushi, you may flip it.

Jaraku the Interloper

Remove a ki counter from Jaraku the Interloper: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}.

Callow Jushi // Jaraku the Interloper

Bone to Ash

Counter target creature spell.
Draw a card.

Brine Shaman

{T}, Sacrifice a creature: Target creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
{1}{U}{U}, Sacrifice a creature: Counter target creature spell.

Bring the Ending

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}.
Corrupted — Counter that spell instead if its controller has three or more poison counters.

Brokers Confluence

Choose three. You may choose the same mode more than once.
• Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)
• Target creature phases out. (Treat it and anything attached to it as though they don't exist until its controller's next turn.)
• Counter target activated or triggered ability.

Brutal Expulsion

Devoid (This card has no color.)
Choose one or both —
• Return target spell or creature to its owner's hand.
• Brutal Expulsion deals 2 damage to target creature or planeswalker. If that creature or planeswalker would die this turn, exile it instead.

Broken Ambitions

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. Clash with an opponent. If you win, that spell's controller mills four cards. (Each clashing player reveals the top card of their library, then puts that card on the top or bottom. A player wins if their card had a higher mana value.)

Broken Concentration

Counter target spell.
Madness {3}{U} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

Censor

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.
Cycling {U} ({U}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Cerulean Drake

Flying
Protection from red (This creature can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage, enchanted, or equipped by anything red.)
Sacrifice Cerulean Drake: Counter target spell that targets you.

Chancellor of the Annex

You may reveal this card from your opening hand. If you do, when each opponent casts their first spell of the game, counter that spell unless that player pays {1}.
Flying
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, counter it unless that player pays {1}.

Circular Logic

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each card in your graveyard.
Madness {U} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)

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