Counterbalance
- Mana cost
- {U}{U}
- Type
- Enchantment
- Set
- Mystery Booster 2 #157 (uncommon)
- Price
- $1.55 USD
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may reveal the top card of your library. If you do, counter that spell if it has the same mana value as the revealed card.
Counterbalance has 6 printings, first in Coldsnap (2006). EDHREC ranks it #3,445 among Commander cards. It appears most in Glarb, Calamity's Augur decks (5,573 on EDHREC). It has 2 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Counterbalance most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Glarb, Calamity's Augur: 5,573 decks
- Talion, the Kindly Lord: 2,353 decks
- Urza, Lord High Artificer: 1,747 decks
- Elsha of the Infinite: 1,562 decks
- Zur the Enchanter: 1,206 decks
- Baral, Chief of Compliance: 1,174 decks
- Grand Arbiter Augustin IV: 1,101 decks
- Tivit, Seller of Secrets: 710 decks
Often played with Counterbalance
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If an opponent casts a spell with X in its mana cost, the mana value of that spell takes the value of X into account. If you reveal a card with X in its mana cost, X is 0. For example, if your opponent casts Blaze with X=1, Counterbalance will counter that spell if you reveal a card with mana value 2, but it won't counter that spell if you reveal a Blaze of your own.
- : If an opponent casts half of a split card (for example, Hit), it won't be countered if you reveal that same split card. The mana value of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves, but the mana value of Hit is determined using only that half's mana cost.