Counter!

2 Cavern of Souls
4 Tropical Island
3 Alchemist's Refuge
3 Maze of Ith
4 Misty Rainforest
5 Island
21 lands


4 Ertai, Wizard Adept
4 Lullmage Mentor
8 creatures


1 Mana Leak
4 Flusterstorm
4 Force of Will
4 Isochron Scepter
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Ancestral Recall
4 Spell Pierce
1 Treasure Cruise
4 Mana Drain
1 Sol Ring
4 Counterspell
1 Mana Vault
1 Black Lotus
31 other spells


Sideboard
Notes:
Attempt number 2. Counters until lullmage tokens can swing for lethal


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I would drop your slow counters (all your creatures, dissolve, and cryptic command) for better ones (like force of will and daze) and an actual wincon (like kuldotha forgenaster or a merfolk beatdown).

When this was in vintage, 3/4 mana counters were definitely not cutting it by any means, and hoping to last that long with 1-1 counters wasn't happening. In casual, this may be fine.

You better hope that you play first how do you stop a T1 Griselbrand or Emrakul the Aeons Torn (obviously you counter but they also play counters) so what you Foil their Show and Tell then they FoW your foil so then you either Foil again (by then you discard 4 cards PLUS 2 foils and you have a 1 card hand lets hope it's a land or something of use ...)

Tbh there's a reason why FoW is expensive and Foil is dirt cheap ...

Foil is an island AND another card ...

Quote from: Mattao19 on January 04, 2014, 10:12:14 PM

You better hope that you play first how do you stop a T1 Griselbrand or Emrakul the Aeons Torn (obviously you counter but they also play counters) so what you Foil their Show and Tell then they FoW your foil so then you either Foil again (by then you discard 4 cards PLUS 2 foils and you have a 1 card hand lets hope it's a land or something of use ...)

Tbh there's a reason why FoW is expensive and Foil is dirt cheap ...

Umm.  You did your math wrong.  Discard an island for foil, repeat is only 4 total.  Not 6...  Fow is the same thing.  Force of will, plus a blue card and a life, rinse repeat is 4 cards and 2 life.

Fow has to eat a counter because lands are colorless.  In most decks, that's a better thing, but in this deck I need every single one of my counters

 And what you said was a god hand, which I wouldn't be too concerned about.
The have black lotus their bomb of choice, show and tell, force of will and a blue card to exile, and of all things they went first.

I'm just saying that is what you can expect in vintage

Lol no worries you tried!! Lol if it was just discard an island card ... Wow! Imagine lol!!

guile could be fun ^^

Time Walk and maybe Temporal Mastery with your Brainstorms

Well you run Brainstorm but just a thought that I had

Why does this deck exist?

Everything. Make a new deck

I counter that statement.
What should I cut?

Considering counter spells are NOT a win condition I'd say trash it and start over

I flood the field with merfolk and swarm them, or just attack with one of my dudes if I still have a counter in hand.

lol ok cool what format just casual?

So you're telling me you lose if you lose that Merfolk dude...