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RighteousBlaze· September 2026
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Counterbalance
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Magic: The Gathering single: Counterbalance, from Coldsnap. Our grade: Lightly Played or better. Pictured: this printing of the card. Every card ships triple-sleeved — a soft sleeve, a deck sleeve and a rigid top loader.
Item Description
Imagine every spell your opponent casts passing through a toll booth where you get to set the price. Counterbalance is a two-mana blue enchantment that triggers whenever an opponent casts a spell: you may reveal the top card of your library, and if its mana value matches that spell's, the spell is countered. No card spent from hand, no mana held up, just a constant tax on everything they try.
On its own it is a gamble, and that is what makes building around it so satisfying. Fill your deck with a tight spread of cheap spells and the odds start tilting your way. Add anything that lets you look at or rearrange the top of your library and the gamble turns into a lock. Its pairing with Sensei's Divining Top became one of the most famous combinations in Legacy history, nicknamed Counter-Top, letting the pilot set up exactly the right card before each opposing spell. In cube and casual play the same idea works with scry, Brainstorm-style effects and any other way of stacking your draws.
This is the original Coldsnap printing, collector number 31, a non-foil uncommon illustrated by John Zeleznik. Coldsnap was a 2006 standalone return to the frozen Ice Age setting, and Counterbalance is the card from it that blue players still bring up first.
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