Ertai, Wizard Adept

Simply a must for blue control. Yes, at 1/1 he''s vulnerable. Throw in a Mother of Runes and/or a Divine Caretaker. Yes, two blue and two colorless is a bit pricey. That''s why we have Tolarian Academy and Mana Drains.

The main reason why he's got 5 stars, is that he is the only card who can infinately counter things without a sacrifice requirement...at least from the cards I've seen. His activation effect is expensive, but an ability as powerful as countering is worth the cost. He adds protection from unfriendly spells to both your creatures and you, and he can also stop opponents from summoning all but the creatures with counter protection. When I get him out, I gain quite a bit more control over what my opponent does.

My favourite creature/legend/permanent. Ertai is the only source of infinite countering that is absolute and not requiring sacrificing, revealing cards, discarding cards, etc. I like to use a self-made strategy with Ertai, Temporal Adept, and Arcane Laboratory. Your opponent can never again cast any spells that wont be countered and you'll eventually clear his field; so long as you are carefull...

AWESOME CARD!!!!! I've won many games with this card.

Very cheap and much better than the corrupted because of him being one colour, costing less and his ability not requiring a sacrifice. The artworks much better too.

Better than the corrupted, nice artwork and goes well in any blue deck because of the ability

Very nice card, great addition to a counter deck, not as good as ertai the corrupted, but the upside to this one is hes all one color and not multi.

True he does cost a hefty 4 to use his ability but that still could come in handy.

If you have the mana to use his ability (which i normally do when hes in play) hes pretty useful.

Great ability but far too costy, I cant be bother playing such a booring slow deck having to leave 4 untapped mana til next turn. Him beeing so very costs him another star. This guy is way overrated.

And yee who thinks this is the only card that can counter infinatly should, like someone above stated, check out mundungo. Sure his counter is weak but its totally free, hes not a legend, and he costs less money.

Ertai is a nice card but not that usefull. Who in their right mind would play any good spells while you have 4 mana untapped to use the ability. He also can easily be killed by cards like lava dart. Ertai is good but I like Mundungu a whole of a lot better.

Ertai may be costly, and weak, but his countering ability makes him a useful (to say the least) card to use.

2 Blue 1 Colorless to play and 4 total mana to counter a spell? And its a 1/1.