you can choose to re-target counterspell to shunt and your original spell stays

  -- By Jake Engstrom from tempe on April 01, 2009

DunK: No. The counterspell has to be played to counter; once it's played, it's no longer on the stack. "countering" a spell means to target it while it's on the stack. in fact, that's the only time it's a spell: once in play, it's a creature, artifact, etc.

  -- By icemantis99 from Nevada, USA on March 12, 2009

Could i use this on a "Counterspell" and target the Counterspell itself? So that the Counterspell counters itself?

  -- By dunK from Germany on January 08, 2009

just use it on game-winning spells...

  -- By Anonymous from Wilmette, IL USA on August 26, 2008

This card falls inline with similarities to that of reroute in the ravnica series and if used together in a deck could devastate any opponent using targeting spells when the target is the player playing the spell. nice card indeed!

  -- By Anonymous from Somewhere, USA on March 24, 2006