Counterbalance
Enchantment
Artist:
John ZeleznikShare:
Text:
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.
Rulings:
- 7/15/2006 If an opponent casts a spell with X in its mana cost, the converted mana cost 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 converted mana cost 2, but it won’t counter that spell if you reveal a Blaze of your own.
- 4/18/2017 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 converted mana cost of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves, but the converted mana cost of Hit is determined using only that half’s mana cost.
Legality:
- standard: Not legal
- future: Not legal
- frontier: Not legal
- modern: Legal
- legacy: Legal
- pauper: Not legal
- vintage: Legal
- penny: Not legal
- commander: Legal
- 1v1: Legal
- duel: Legal
- brawl: Not legal
- oldschool: Not legal
- historic: Not legal
- pioneer: Not legal
- gladiator: Not legal
- premodern: Not legal
- historicbrawl: Not legal
- paupercommander: Not legal
- alchemy: Not legal
- explorer: Not legal
- predh: Legal
- oathbreaker: Legal
- timeless: Not legal
- standardbrawl: Not legal
Sets:
- Amonkhet Invocations #9 (mythic)
- Coldsnap #31 (uncommon)
- Secret Lair #1220 (rare)
- The List #1248 (uncommon)
- The List #CSP-31 (uncommon)
Other languages:
- Counterbalance
- Contrepoids
- Gegengewicht
- Controbilanciare
- Contrapesar
- Contrabalançar
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- 抵销
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