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5 months ago ::
Jan 24, 2013 - 10:08AM
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5 months ago ::
Jan 25, 2013 - 8:43PM
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Date Joined:
Dec 27, 2009
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Something of interest: Mark Rosewater: Hard counters need two colors of mana in their mana cost one of which needs to be blue.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 27, 2013 - 12:28PM
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Date Joined:
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Something of interest:
Mark Rosewater: Hard counters need two colors of mana in their mana cost one of which needs to be blue.
It's probably a typo. He means "two colored mana". I don't see Cancel  out of the core set.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 27, 2013 - 7:29PM
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Date Joined:
Dec 27, 2009
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Something of interest:
Mark Rosewater: Hard counters need two colors of mana in their mana cost one of which needs to be blue.
It's probably a typo. He means "two colored mana". I don't see Cancel out of the core set.
The question was specifically about Psychic Strike  , so yeah.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 27, 2013 - 7:52PM
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Date Joined:
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Something of interest:
Mark Rosewater: Hard counters need two colors of mana in their mana cost one of which needs to be blue.
It's probably a typo. He means "two colored mana". I don't see Cancel out of the core set.
There's some amount of implied reading there. I think what he meant is that hardcounters (counters that counter anything and without "pay x" conditions or alternative effects) have a stucture of
CC + whatever cost is approrpriate given what the card actually does.
Except that in the current design/dev machine, they frontload new hardcounters with extra generic mana and chaff effects or chaff effects + narrow targeting.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 27, 2013 - 8:13PM
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Dec 27, 2009
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What's basically being said is that R&D is now willing to put cards that read "Counter Target Spell" at costs that have two of any color mana one of which has to be blue, whereas before they needed a minimum of two blue. Not " counter target  spell unless  " or " counter target  BLAH spell  ", but " counter target spell  ". Edit: Confirmed by Maro.
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4 months ago ::
Feb 16, 2013 - 4:47PM
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Date Joined:
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Can similar flavor be brought to Green and Red? Both are even MORE direct. I think that red is a good candidate for Redirect  style antimagic, changing the course of the spell itself, as well as Reverberate  , making opponents' spells into double-edged swords. Green? No idea, since green is far more about the creatures and less about spells. Possibly it could share some of white's ability to put creatures with permission abilities on the board, but nothing jumps out at me as a uniquely green way to deal with spells.
There's an argument for green getting "creature protection" counterspells. Usually, it just gets cards like Ranger's Guile  which do the job in a much more green fashion, but something like Avoid Fate  doesn't seem too far of a stretch to me.
For green I would give it something that protects both creatures and the user from harm.
So, to take a bit of white's share, give it something along these lines:
Gladecover 1G
Instant
Target permanent or player gains hexproof until end of turn.
Simple card that can be used to save a dude from a [Lightning Bolt]Kill[/c] spell or to save you from dying to the same thing.
Now, green has also been about taking out noncreature permanents, what about noncreature spells as well? Could it get an overcosted Negate?
Yeva's Decree 3G
Instant
Counter target noncreature spell.
Or, more closely to beast within.
Fungal Infection 1G
Instant
Counter target instant or sorcery spell. Its controller puts X 1/1 saproling tokens onto the battlefield, where X is that spell's converted mana cost.
Seems like it would allow green to deal with poweful spell cards in "green" way, that normally they would not be able to do.
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4 months ago ::
Feb 16, 2013 - 5:19PM
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I do agree with your Gladecover, billiondegree. Yeva's Decree doesn't feel green at all, though, and Fungal Infection would need to put an X/X creature rather than X 1/1 creatures, since green doesn't have meens of getting rid of swarms of creatures, plus it still doesn't feel green (it could be   , though, if it countered any spell). I feel that the only two colors that can get actual counterspells are blue and black (soft counters playing on life and hard counters against creatures). The others need other ways of thinking. Red indeed would get spell duplication and spell deviation. Green could do with hexproof, and white doesn't require counterspells.
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4 months ago ::
Feb 16, 2013 - 5:21PM
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Date Joined:
Dec 27, 2009
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But black doesn't need counterspells.
It has kill spells for creatures, and discard and extraction effects for everything else.
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4 months ago ::
Feb 16, 2013 - 5:28PM
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Date Joined:
Jul 13, 2012
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Yet I could see spells like this:   Counter target spell with converted mana cost . Its controller loses X life. or Counter target spell unless its controller pays and X life. It plays well with discard effects that let you chose what to remove, and allows the color to fight against enchantments, artifacts and planeswalkers, which it usually is excessively weak against.
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