plushpenguin wrote: ↑4 years ago
The real question is how many 1cmc counterspells are worth running.
I think it's a case by case thing, given that there's only a handful and they're mostly awful. I think
Invasive Surgery to counter wipes is worth giving a shot. If we have delirium, we even get to look at their hand.
Beyond that, what are the viable ones?
Swan Song gives them a blocker (but that doesn't mean we can't punch other people).
Spell Pierce is really unreliable. I don't think we have enough 'big' creatures for
Stubborn Denial. How do we feel about
Turn Aside/
Intervene/
Mizzium Skin (given you just cut
Misdirection)? Does
Dispel counter anything
Turn Aside wouldn't?
Honestly, I would run Invasive Surgery (but perhaps not
Envelop; we can reasonably use one, but likely not both). Swan Song I'm leaning to including but the rest are varying degrees of not reliable/good enough, IMO. Far more effective are the pitch spells (since mana is typically our limiting reagent
and they have higher mana costs for the purposes of Yuriko's flips), but those are already in.
I think we could probably test
Spell Pierce. I doubt people will play around it, and it's a question of if we close out games before they can cast an answer with +2 mana. I think we're underrating Swan Song, and it deserves a slot. It really depends on meta; when I played a couple of nights ago, the answers that were leveraged were
Oath of Liliana, and two
Fleshbag Marauder analogues. Against the marauders, none of these would have worked. Oath could have been pushed back by Spell Pierce (he played it on 4 lands, so, it was only to be good until the midgame), and there would have been no opportunity to use
Invasive Surgery. Honestly, I powered through by recasting Yuriko from the command zone (instead of using Ninjutsu).
edit:
TLDR: To test:
Spell Pierce,
Invasive Surgery - To include:
Swan Song (but let's be very careful how we play it).