This is my most competitive deck at the moment and I am trying to make it to mythic and consistently win to earn my daily prizes.
I want to hear your feedback on my list and what changes you would make and why, and what your list is.
My list (lands are not optimal because I don’t have the wildcards for them):
4 Alseid of Life’s Bounty
4 Consider
4 Spell Pierce
4 Raffine’s Informant
4 Tainted Indulgence
4 Faithful Mending
3 Ledger Shredder
4 Raffine, Scheming Seer
4 Greasefang, Okiba Boss
4 Parhelion II
21 lands
What data are you going by? If you have a source, could you send it to me?
I feel that you are right about Stubborn Denial being in the top 3, but I am writing this just based on playing against it.
Putting Spell Queller in my sample list was my mistake since yes, it is not a counterspell. I am not considering Chalice of the Void to be a counterspell. I am just considering instants with the text - or with a variant of the text - "counter target spell".
The goal of this post is to sheerly and intellectually rank and debate which counterspells are the best in modern, from 1.Best to 10.Tenth Best. Since the old thread has been locked and is outdated (14 February 2014 - 21 October 2015), please provide your most insightful, logical, and judicious reasons for your rankings of the counterspells in the current metagame. I will begin by providing a sample top 10 list and some others below that can be worked off of:
I want to hear your feedback on my list and what changes you would make and why, and what your list is.
My list (lands are not optimal because I don’t have the wildcards for them):
4 Alseid of Life’s Bounty
4 Consider
4 Spell Pierce
4 Raffine’s Informant
4 Tainted Indulgence
4 Faithful Mending
3 Ledger Shredder
4 Raffine, Scheming Seer
4 Greasefang, Okiba Boss
4 Parhelion II
21 lands
In case I need to clarify, I meant for my list to just be an example. I may consider Stubborn Denial to be the best counterspell in modern.
I feel that you are right about Stubborn Denial being in the top 3, but I am writing this just based on playing against it.
The goal of this post is to sheerly and intellectually rank and debate which counterspells are the best in modern, from 1.Best to 10.Tenth Best. Since the old thread has been locked and is outdated (14 February 2014 - 21 October 2015), please provide your most insightful, logical, and judicious reasons for your rankings of the counterspells in the current metagame. I will begin by providing a sample top 10 list and some others below that can be worked off of:
1. Cryptic Command
2. Remand
3. Mana Leak
4. Spell Snare
5. Negate
6. Logic Knot
7. Dispel
8. Spell Pierce
9. Izzet Charm
10. Spell Queller
(Here are some others: Counterflux, Countersquall, Spell Pierce, Condescend, Rune Snag, Disallow, Mana Tithe, Dissipate, Dissolve, Disrupting Shoal, Pact of Negation, Delay, Deprive, Familiar's Ruse, Mindbreak Trap, Disdainful Stroke, Stubborn Denial, Venser Shaper Savant.)