Countervailing Winds
- Mana cost
- {2}{U}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Amonkhet Remastered #56 (common)
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each card in your graveyard.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Countervailing Winds has 2 printings, first in Hour of Devastation (2017). EDHREC ranks it #9,235 among Commander cards. It appears most in Gavi, Nest Warden decks (2,832 on EDHREC). It has 1 official ruling.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Countervailing Winds most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Gavi, Nest Warden: 2,832 decks
- Captain Howler, Sea Scourge: 768 decks
- Toluz, Clever Conductor: 216 decks
- Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer: 179 decks
- Ghost of Ramirez DePietro: 3 decks
- Adric, Mathematical Genius: 2 decks
- Shuri, Vibranium Technologist: 2 decks
- Spock, Logical Choice: 1 decks
Often played with Countervailing Winds
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Count the number of cards in your graveyard as Countervailing Winds resolves to determine how much mana the controller of the target spell must pay to avoid the spell being countered. Countervailing Winds is still on the stack at this time and won’t count toward this number.