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This deck features Baral and Jace and has a lot of instant and sorcery spell synergies
Counter all the scary stuff and bounce things away:- Hopefully since mono blue lacks "hard removal" you'll have enough bounce to stall for enough time to win or find more counterspells1. Counter all the scary stuff2. Draw cards3. Counter more stuff4. Bounce stuff to stall for time5. Play Rise from the tides6. Win
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You forgot the most basic counterspell of all: negate.
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I mean I disagree, cancel is the baseline for hard counters now. Though negate is probably played the most across all formats. Seeing as this is casual not standard I would recommend, remand, mana leak and disallow.
Thanks for the suggestions; always love the feedback.I am trying to keep this deck budget and disallow is kinda pricey right now; I did originally have it in though.Mana Leak and Remand would be amazing though. I would also like to put Negate in but I was trying to keep "counter target spell" because I always get frustrated when I leave negate up and they play a creature :)What do you guys think about putting Geist of the Archives in? Is it any good?
If you want to go for scrying, Jace's Sanctum might work better
sanctum is depitivlly powerfull
if going for scy in mono blue why not run thassa?
Dissolve, and cryptic command also would work great in this deck.
its a little spendy but torrential gearhulk would be great
Command has dropped a lot though, currently around 23$
depends if there trying to keep it standard
dahandron, Did you mean demand?
Right, I play mostly modern so i tend to forget about that problem
No, Cryptic Command
I thought you were talking about the gearhulk, sorry.
I mean a single command costs more than the entire deck rigth now. As ths is casual i would say its not a good idea to buy commands just for that. I would also like to say that gearhulk will probably drop dramtically once its out of standard.so id keep gearhulk on the back of his mind, but wait fro it to fall out of standard.
i just pulled a foil torrential last week with a masterpiece solemn simulcrum out of the same box
!lucksack, thats some good trade fodder right there.
yep i'm planning on it i like torrential but my foil is worth 2 normal and solemn is a great edh card but i already own a bunch of normal 1s
Rune Snag; Echoing Truth;Evacuation;Accumated Knowledge;Rewind;Spell Contortion;Think Twice;All budget casual blue control staples
Rewind is a fantastic counter and for setting up I would recommend frantic search. Talrand, Sky Summoner would fit right in this deck as well. Overall love the deck!
Neither of those are standard legal
My bad, my playgroup doesn't play standard, so I wasn't considering that.
omg rage quit
I want to thanks everyone for their feedback. My playgroup is getting together this weekend and we will consider all cards you guys suggested, and so you should see some changes made to the deck then.With all the options we'll have to discuss if we want it to be standard or casual.
if u go casual add the original Counterspell