Counter a Black Lotus on turn 1 with 0 mana on the board? Yeah, this card is amazing.

  -- By johnson collins from Kentucky on October 17, 2011

Meh. Its very situational. You can eliminate anything huge your opponents play, but you lose card advantage. "Oohhh, but its free so its amazing..." well yeah but you lose life and you have to discard too. So your opponent just cast one card for your loss of 2 and one life. Congrats. Oh yeah, and not to mention, it has to be blue. In u/w control this thing can fail on you because you dont got any blue to discard. Ouch. Its best use is a 5 mana counterspell.

  -- By Anonymous from qwertyuiop on June 13, 2011

Dangerous against combo or important plays yes. But what if everything you play in your deck is a threat like zoo? The way I see it if you force of will a spell the text read " Discard two of your blue cards lose 1 life " so i got a free blightning that does 1 damage instead of 3? Yes i understand if the card I was casting was a quasali pridemage and he has a counterbalance out but no 2 mana on the top that it is a good choice either way you are losing 2 cards have fun drawing 3 islands in a row next turn mr so called control player gg ill swing for 13 or something next turn and fireblast you where is your force of will for that?

  -- By Anonymous from force of will, is good on May 07, 2011

simply amazing if you can get ahold of one.

  -- By Andres from Gainesville, FL on February 16, 2011

Remand beaten! Force of Will has the power to fill your enemy's soul with terror. He will wilt before you, as an untended lotus blossom does. He will have nearly defeated himself from within before you even strike.

  -- By Rising Son from Mt. Fuji on January 11, 2011

One of the best cards ever printed. No question. But the guy from Las Vegas said protection from blue would save something from being countered, but that is just not true. Goblin Piledriver, for example, has protection from blue, but only wile it is on the battlefield. The same is true for any and all permanents with any kind of protection. This means that a permanent with protection from blue can still be counterspelled. I will be the first to admit I don't know all there is to know about this game, but on this matter I am quite certain.

  -- By Jim from Madison, WI on October 11, 2010

Best Legal Counterspell in Legacy! A 4-of in over 80% of the decks.

  -- By Anonymous from atlanta, ga on September 18, 2010

This card is awesome! No cards can beat this card... Five stars!

  -- By Anonymous from ??? on August 12, 2010

FoW is, and will probably always be, among the top 20 or so cards ever printed in MTG. What other card can stop those horrible turn 1 kill combos? Counterspell? No. Remand? Nope. Not even Mana Drain (another 5 star card btw) can save you on turn 1. There is no substitute for Force of Will!

  -- By Mark N from Marshfield, Wisconsin on July 13, 2010

I agree with the guy above me. For Force of will I rate 5 stars.....

  -- By Anonymous from USA on July 07, 2010

I agree with you man! Oh look at the price, I buy Force or Will when it still $ 1.99 at year 1998. How lucky I have 8 of them....! Hehehehehe.....

  -- By Anonymous from Polandia on July 05, 2010

This card is awesome, I play blue base deck with 4 Force of Will as counters. They save me a lot from opponent's threats. Thanks to Force of Will, you're the best counter!

  -- By Jansen Robert from Indonesia on July 03, 2010

For Force of Will I give 5 star, for "You know who from You know where" and "Jace Beleren" I give them 0 star.

  -- By Anonymous from ??? on July 02, 2010

I apreciate for WOTC making this card. Five stars! I think the guy who you rate 0 stars is good comentators. At least not like you that just say... "Five Star" with no comment, no name, no home. I rate "You know who from You know where" -100000 star. Huahahahahah!

  -- By Anonymous from USA on July 02, 2010

To Force of Will, I give 5 stars. To the babbling guy above me, I give 0 stars.

  -- By You know who from You know where on June 10, 2010

I don't agree with that. Force of Will itself not working well, but with the attraction with many blue cards, the Force of Will is very dangerous counter! And don't say Remand beaten... Remand can counter your own spell that will be countered by your opponent. It's not just put your own spell to your hand, but also lets you draw a card! Force of Will may be very dangerous counter, but what will you do if you don't have any blue cards in your hand?? I just want to say that Remand, Counterspell, and the others counter cards like Force of Will, etc. are good in a certain condition...

  -- By Jace Beleren from bandung on May 22, 2010

The best countering card hands down. Force of will beats out counterspell, pact of negation, remand and all the others by playablity, versatility, and flexibility. The ability to to save yourself or throw a seriously enormous wrench in your opponents strategy from out of nowhere with virtually no mana is astounding. And while it can be overcome( protection from blue for one) it does not detract from the absolute incredibility that this card has to offer. To put it simply, bravo. ;)

  -- By Anonymous from Las vegas, NV USA on May 18, 2010

This card is my archenemy. In legacy my dredg build can win turn 2-3, but countering my only discard outlet makes things much harder... Anyone who gave this 1,2, or 3 clearly doesn't understand Legacy/Vintage - if a deck wins turn 1 or 2, then this is the only way to counter their plan.

  -- By Countered Putrid Imp from San Jose CA on April 22, 2010

All of the people who say this card is good situationally, don't build competitively (clearly). If you build (especially blue) competitively you rarely have available mana, because you want to maximize your effectiveness your turn, force of will lets you do that, and even after doing that, you still have countering ability. Anyone who rates this under 5 stars doesn't understand competitive magic, which is fine if you're just playing for fun. Anyone who's played against this card knows it's not fun, it just ruins your day!

  -- By Eric from Lethbridge, AB, Canada on April 02, 2010

Anyone who rates this card less than 5 stars does not play magic competitively. If my opponents didn't win until turn 20 I probably wouldn't think Force of Will was good either, but since 95% of the decks in Legacy and Vintage kill turns 1-4 I understand the value of this card. You don't need to have "crappy" blue spells in your deck to pitch to force either, you just run cards like Brainstorm and Ponder which are often situationally useful and therefore are not vital to your deck winning at any given time and can be pitched to Force of Will when necessary. Other cards like Spell pierce and Daze are perfect to run with Force of Will since mid to late game they lose some of their effectiveness and can be used to fuel Force. This is the best counterspell card ever printed. Period.

  -- By Khurtz from Fairport, NY on February 26, 2010

A staple of the eternal formats and rightly so. For those who argue that it's only good when you're tapped out or that it's useless later in the game as a 5 CMC spell are arguing moot points. It is NEVER casted as a 5 CMC spell unless there's no other choice because mana efficiency of extreme importance and in vintage/legacy 5 mana is much better spent elsewhere (if the game even reaches that point). For those who say it's card disadvantage need to learn about mana efficiency especially at the speed of the formats (Read up on Fundamental Turns). Force of Will allows you to develop your own board position whilst offering protection at the same time as well as an advantage against other control players, especially if they don't have a FOW. It's good for stopping turn 1/2 combos as well as stalling Aggressive ones. FoW deserves its status as one of the top 2 premier counterspells with mana drain.

  -- By Anonymous from Australia on January 18, 2010

How can people seriously rate this card under 4 stars. Have the guys that did ever playe magic at all? I don't get it.

  -- By Smell The Glove from sdaffasd on January 03, 2010

Number 1 counter magic in all meta, gamebreaker in all situations...the damage and discard is in fact nothing to countering your opponent's spell while being tapped out..THE BEST!

  -- By POKNAT from Winnetka,CA USA on August 15, 2009

i own 12 of these bad boys! must have for any blue deck. i did own thirteen, but traded it. the second best counter out there, besides mana drain.

  -- By Anonymous from waco, tx on August 14, 2009

If you dont have 4 Force of Will in a control deck, you not playing control. The best.

  -- By Orestes from Johannesburg, SA on July 04, 2009

This card is the glue that holds all of the eternal formats together (aka vintage & legacy). without it these formats would come down to rolling for turn 1 ftw! i play fetchlands tendrils combo and this is the only card stopping me from going nuts on turn 1. Also, what a great card to ruin someones day with in vintage. the expression on my opponents face when i stop them mid combo is priceless and second only to using mana drain and beating them up next turn with my own craziness. If you don't FOW, you don't play mtg

  -- By Either swim like michael phelps, or die trying from San Jose, CA on June 25, 2009

For the one or two people who can't figure out why this is such an amazing card I say to them, duh! This is on the list for the best counter spell ever. Being able to pitch a card to play a counter is amazing! I have a Legacy deck where I run 4 Guiles. He costs 5 mana so I'm pretty open to him getting killed or removed as soon as I drop him. But when I have this card or a Pact of Negation in hand, well let them try to remove him! Amazing card!

  -- By Seth Dortch from FL, USA on April 09, 2009

I dont know how many times this card is a game changer on turn one.

  -- By Matt Walsh from stroudsburg, PA on March 26, 2009

Whoever rated this as a one star card is just mad because Force of Will is STYLIN ON Y'ALL JIVE TURKEYS! I mean seriously, am I glad I had the foresight to trade for a playset of these when Alliances was out... back when I was like twelve or thirteen, blue was seriously the 'uncool' color: I mean, honestly, what young nOOb wants to get all tech-y countering spells and drawing cards when you can just beat face? Craw Wurm FTW! Hehehe... I miss the days when I was young and foolish.

  -- By Duke DemonKnight from Hellesville, Hellatia on July 03, 2008

the only bad part about this card is that it cycled out of extended. this card is kinda like wrath of god; even if you're not playing it, you NEED a playset, just in case.

  -- By boyse wingfield from dominaria on July 05, 2007

this card is a must-have in ANY non-type II deck...not only is it good in general play, but it is effective against cards brought out first turn by super-expensive cards such as the Moxes and the Lotus...

  -- By david cardoso from laramie, WY USA on October 05, 2006

I love this card. Why? It's the best combo killer alive in any format!

First turn lotus, channel, fireball, ha ha you're dead..... No, I'm not, cuz I Willed your fireball!

Actually pulling that off against the early combos was a great feat and it made me feel full of pride. It showed that cheaper cards could be just as powerful as the more expensive cards AND that this one would be a fan favorite for a long time. Even now, with Coldsnap on the rise, we all are wanting a foil Force of Will.

I own 4 of these puppies in my control deck, but I'm seriously pondering the thought of purchasing four more

  -- By Ullrich from Baghdad, Iraq on June 24, 2006

Forced to put four Force of Will in my Vintage deck! Don't like to remove a Time Walk or Ancestral Recall but it's better then a turn one graveyard. Unless somebody can teach me how to use a Ancestral Recall to recall a dead player!?

  -- By Wild Weasel from Netherlands, Europe on March 04, 2005

This card drops jaws.

  -- By Chris from San Diego CA on January 19, 2005

Powerful Card, Can be in many decks that run blue. Can also be very suprising when you are tapped out and your opponet doesn't know you can still counter. I own 2 of these but, I am trying to get two more.

  -- By Kayle from LaPorte, Indiana USA on September 23, 2004

A blue deck without Force of Will is a boring deck! It saved me many times against the "First turn kills".

  -- By Kevin Ratelle from Laval, QC, Ca on July 14, 2004

this card is great

  -- By joe from south plainfield, nj on October 14, 2003

This card is very good I have a control-counter deck and I have one soon I will buy from here 3 force of will!

  -- By obituary,celtic frost,manowar,slayer,death,cannib from GREECE on July 24, 2002

Force of will is one of the best counterspell cards in magic.A control deck must have 4 force of will.

  -- By from GREECE on July 15, 2002

THis card is GREAT. no mana countering... its sick. Proves old cards can still kick a$$. Every counterspell deck needs 4 of these.

  -- By Anonymous from Albany, NY on April 24, 2002

OK a step by step evaluation of what the pluses and minuses of this card are + 1st turn counter of a key creature (stops pesky dark ritual things and potentially devastating 1st turn creatures + That alternate casting cost is alwlys useful + You can allow yourself to tap out and still counter something + You can make peopl hesitant if they know you have it - You do lose one life if you do the alternte castng cost - To use it regurlarly it is 5, expensive - Not type 2 legal Overall: This is an excelant card that can be used in many formats, and an excellent surprise just when they think they can slip something by. In type 1 or 1.5 this card is a must

  -- By Steven from Missouri on January 14, 2002

Force of Will is one of those cards that makes your opponent cringe. The mere fact that you can counter any of thier spells whether or not you're tapped out makes this card fantastic. I play in multiple extended tournaments every year and in 90% of the decks there are 4 force of wills. The simple fact is that if you build a competitive non-type 2 deck that contains blue, it is going to contain force of will....

  -- By Nicholas Schreck from Saint Joseph, MO USA on December 06, 2001

If you are playing blue in anything but Type II, you need four of these. The major weakness of blue decks used to be that they couldn't stop anything on turn one. This can stop any spell (except for things like Scragnoth) when you haven't even played a land. In fact, if you're not playing a blue deck, you might consider putting a decent amount of blue in just for this card. Just don't play this in a deck with only two other blue spells or you'll never have one to pitch. Awesome, awesome card!

  -- By Tim Destan from Gilbertsville, PA USA on June 25, 2001

Awesome card! Foil, thwart, and misdirection's got nothing on this card. I just won an ebay auction for four of these bad boys and I can't wait to put them in my type 1 permission deck!



However, I see that it had been placed on the restricted watch list. I can see how that is. Hopefully, it won't get restricted. It's not like Mana Drain!

  -- By Oak Chantosa from KCMO on June 22, 2001

An absolute must have for any extended deck that includes blue.

  -- By Anonymous from Louisville, CO USA on June 21, 2001