This card IS a very good counterspell, especially if your opponent has a way to return cards from library to hand. Think about it in combination with Jester's Cap and Swords to Plowshares. Can you think of many better ways to make your opponent's deck useless in short order? Just remove the most annoying cards and creatures and watch him turn an angry shade of red, or resign in frustration because he no longer has his key cards.

  -- By Stormlord from Havre, MT on September 22, 2008

I would like this card even if it weren't so playable, just for the art. But it is almost as good as Counterspell, and costed just right. Hinder is also very good, and I hope that one of these two are reprinted in 10th.

  -- By bluemage from savannah on February 05, 2007

I love this counter. Great in type 1 for getting rid of annoying Timetwister and Wheel of fortune, also good at killing Hammer of Bogardan & it only costs 1 more! Combos good with gaea's blessing to.

  -- By Kevin LaTempt from St. Louis, MO on May 06, 2005

This is one of the best spins on Counterspell EVER! It's only one more mana than the orinigal, and it has a steller effect. Free is good, but this comes pretty close.

  -- By Anonymous from El Paso, TX on February 12, 2003