Split Decision

Will of the council — Choose target instant or sorcery spell. Starting with you, each player votes for denial or duplication. If denial gets more votes, counter the spell. If duplication gets more votes or the vote is tied, copy the spell. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Desertion

Counter target spell. If an artifact or creature spell is countered this way, put that card onto the battlefield under your control instead of into its owner's graveyard.

Statute of Denial

Counter target spell. If you control a blue creature, draw a card, then discard a card.

Scatter Arc

Counter target noncreature spell.
Draw a card.

Sunken Field

Enchant land
Enchanted land has "{T}: Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}."

Quench

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}.

Decisive Denial

Choose one —
• Target creature you control fights target creature you don't control. (Each deals damage equal to its power to the other.)
• Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Perplex

Counter target spell unless its controller discards their hand.
Transmute {1}{U}{B} ({1}{U}{B}, Discard this card: Search your library for a card with the same mana value as this card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Transmute only as a sorcery.)

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.

Prohibit

Kicker {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell.)
Counter target spell if its mana value is 2 or less. If this spell was kicked, counter that spell if its mana value is 4 or less instead.

Double Negative

Lose Focus

Replicate {U} (When you cast this spell, copy it for each time you paid its replicate cost. You may choose new targets for the copies.)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}.

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.

Syphon Essence

Counter target creature or planeswalker spell. Create a Blood token. (It's an artifact with "{1}, {T}, Discard a card, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.")

Trap Essence

Counter target creature spell. Put two +1/+1 counters on up to one target creature.

Essence Scatter

Guttural Response

Preemptive Strike

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].

Minor Misstep

Counter target spell with mana value 1 or less.

Miscalculation

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Phantom Interference

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.)
+ {3} — Create a 2/2 white Spirit creature token with flying.
+ {1} — Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}.

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.)

Ice Cave

Whenever a player casts a spell, any other player may pay that spell's mana cost. If a player does, counter the spell. (Mana cost includes color.)

Familiar's Ruse

As an additional cost to cast this spell, return a creature you control to its owner's hand.
Counter target spell.

Force Void

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.
Draw a card at the beginning of the next turn's upkeep.

Spell Contortion

Multikicker {1}{U} (You may pay an additional {1}{U} any number of times as you cast this spell.)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}. Draw a card for each time Spell Contortion was kicked.

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.

Countervailing Winds

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each card in your graveyard.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Disdainful Stroke

Counter target spell with mana value 4 or greater.

Dissolve

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

Jaded Response

Counter target spell if it shares a color with a creature you control.

Psychic Barrier

Counter target creature spell. Its controller loses 1 life.

Lookout's Dispersal

This spell costs {1} less to cast if you control a Pirate.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {4}.

Tale's End

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

Remove Soul

Suffocating Blast

Counter target spell and Suffocating Blast deals 3 damage to target creature.

Mana Tithe

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

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.")

Defabricate

Choose one —
• Counter target artifact or enchantment spell. If a spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.
• Counter target activated or triggered ability.

Twist Reality

Choose one —
• Counter target spell.
• Manifest dread. (Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature and the other into your graveyard. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Get Out

Choose one —
• Counter target creature or enchantment spell.
• Return one or two target creatures and/or enchantments you own to your hand.

Veil of Summer

Draw a card if an opponent has cast a blue or black spell this turn. Spells you control can't be countered this turn. You and permanents you control gain hexproof from blue and from black until end of turn. (You and they can't be the targets of blue or black spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Spell Snuff

Counter target spell.
Fateful hour — If you have 5 or less life, draw a card.

Standstill

When a player casts a spell, sacrifice Standstill. If you do, each of that player's opponents draws three cards.

Dimir Charm

Choose one —
• Counter target sorcery spell.
• Destroy target creature with power 2 or less.
• Look at the top three cards of target player's library. Put one back and the rest into that player's graveyard.

Essence Backlash

Counter target creature spell. Essence Backlash deals damage equal to that spell's power to its controller.

Induce Paranoia

Counter target spell. If {B} was spent to cast this spell, that spell's controller mills X cards, where X is the spell's mana value.

Annul

Counter target artifact or enchantment spell.

Steel Sabotage

Choose one —
• Counter target artifact spell.
• Return target artifact to its owner's hand.

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

Spell Snare

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.")

Mystic Denial

Counter target creature or sorcery spell.

Abjure

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

Voidslime

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

Artifact Blast

Swan Song

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

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.)

Overrule

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {X}. You gain X life.

Not of This World

Counter target spell or ability that targets a permanent you control.
This spell costs {7} less to cast if it targets a spell or ability that targets a creature you control with power 7 or greater.

Grip of Amnesia

Counter target spell unless its controller exiles all cards from their graveyard.
Draw a card.

Lost in the Mist

Counter target spell. Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Jwari Ruins

Jwari Disruption

Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins

Oppressive Will

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each card in your hand.

Confound

Counter target spell that targets a creature.
Draw a card.

Forceful Denial

Cascade (When you cast this spell, exile cards from the top of your library until you exile a nonland card that costs less. You may cast it without paying its mana cost. Put the exiled cards on the bottom in a random order.)
Counter target spell.

Foil

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

Intervene

Counter target spell that targets a creature.

Tibalt's Trickery

Counter target spell. Choose 1, 2, or 3 at random. Its controller mills that many cards, then exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card with a different name than that spell. They may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then they put the exiled cards on the bottom of their library in a random order.

Reasonable Doubt

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}.
Suspect up to one target creature. (A suspected creature has menace and can't block.)

Mana Leak

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {3}.

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.

Warping Wail

({C} represents colorless mana.)
Choose one —
• Exile target creature with power or toughness 1 or less.
• Counter target sorcery spell.
• Create a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token. It has "Sacrifice this creature: Add {C}."

Stubborn Denial

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {1}.
Ferocious — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, counter that spell instead.

Counterpoint

Counter target spell. You may cast a creature, instant, sorcery, or planeswalker spell from your graveyard with mana value less than or equal to that spell's mana value without paying its mana cost.

Whirlwind Denial

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

Strix Serenade

Counter target artifact, creature, or planeswalker spell. Its controller creates a 2/2 blue Bird creature token with flying.

Who // What // When // Where // Why

Mystic Genesis

Counter target spell. Create an X/X green Ooze creature token, where X is that spell's mana value.

Squelch

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

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.

Denied!

Choose a card name, then target spell's controller reveals their hand. If a card with the chosen name is revealed this way, counter that spell.

Douse

Don't Make a Sound

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {2}. If they do, 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.)

Miscast

Counter target instant or sorcery spell unless its controller pays {3}.

Spelljack

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard. You may play it without paying its mana cost for as long as it remains exiled. (If it has X in its mana cost, X is 0.)

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.

Saruman's Trickery

Counter target spell.
Amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Frightful Delusion

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}. That player discards a card.

Absorb

Counterspell

Hesitation

When a player casts a spell, sacrifice Hesitation and counter that spell.

Clockspinning

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.)
Choose a counter on target permanent or suspended card. Remove that counter from that permanent or card or put another of those counters on it.

Counterbalance

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may reveal the top card of your library. If you do, counter that spell if it has the same mana value as the revealed card.

Daze

You may return an Island you control to its owner's hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.

Overwhelming Intellect

Counter target creature spell. Draw cards equal to that spell's mana value.

Faerie Trickery

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

Concerted Defense

Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays {1} plus an additional {1} for each creature in your party. (Your party consists of up to one each of Cleric, Rogue, Warrior, and Wizard.)

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.

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.)

Dispersal Shield

Counter target spell if its mana value is less than or equal to the highest mana value among permanents you control.

Spell Snip

Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1}.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

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.