At least you have to preemptively activate this. Would be much stronger against counterspells if you could hold it open until a coubterspell is cast and then make your spell uncounterable.
That might actually make it worse to be honest. If it made a target spell uncounterable, the spell could be countered again in response. That would make this land basically a super specialized, repeatable Counterspell.
Usually you know when you want a spell to resolve (wrath, commander, wincon, etc) so this lets you prepare for that. In brawl, I would expect this land to be a very strong land even.
The main issue I have with it is actually standard, where counterspells already suck, and paying 2 additional mana to prevent something that’s already unlikely will be way too slow for most decks to actually compete. Maybe some mill deck might play a copy for mirror matches to resolve Jace or something. Otherwise, Cavern of Souls does this for free in a lot of decks. If/when that rotates out, this might see some real play.
Yeah this really strengthens the Abuelo’s Awakening/Omniscience combo in Standard. This seems kinda crazy for the cost, Boseiju at least cost life though this does require you’re in blue.
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Not really sure if I’d play this particular land, but WOTC really hates counterspells these days.
At least you have to preemptively activate this. Would be much stronger against counterspells if you could hold it open until a coubterspell is cast and then make your spell uncounterable.
That might actually make it worse to be honest. If it made a target spell uncounterable, the spell could be countered again in response. That would make this land basically a super specialized, repeatable Counterspell.
Usually you know when you want a spell to resolve (wrath, commander, wincon, etc) so this lets you prepare for that. In brawl, I would expect this land to be a very strong land even.
The main issue I have with it is actually standard, where counterspells already suck, and paying 2 additional mana to prevent something that’s already unlikely will be way too slow for most decks to actually compete. Maybe some mill deck might play a copy for mirror matches to resolve Jace or something. Otherwise, Cavern of Souls does this for free in a lot of decks. If/when that rotates out, this might see some real play.
Yeah this really strengthens the Abuelo’s Awakening/Omniscience combo in Standard. This seems kinda crazy for the cost, Boseiju at least cost life though this does require you’re in blue.