I was wondering about the overload part of {counterflux}. Say I play a {ranger's path} and my opponent plays counterflux while paying its overload cost. In response to his counter, I play {increasing vengence} to make another spell. Since he overloaded his spell does it counter everything that I played or just the first spell?
It counters all spells that were on the stack when it entered the stack. All spells played afterward are not effected. Counterflux's overload ability can mainly be used to stop storm effects, and is highly useless in standard. The non overload part is good though, especially since it can't be countered.
Quote from: Coffee Vampire on November 10, 2012, 02:27:48 AM
It counters all spells that were on the stack when it entered the stack. All spells played afterward are not effected. Counterflux's overload ability can mainly be used to stop storm effects, and is highly useless in standard. The non overload part is good though, especially since it can't be countered.
Thank you for clarifying! I lost round 3 at FNM tonight because the guy claimed it countered everything. Grrr... There is always next week.
It does counter everything on the stack... When it resolves.
If you respond to it, your new spell will be added to the stack on top of it, and will resolve and be done before Counterflux does its thing.
Yes it does counter all spells on the stack but if you respond it it by casting a spell, the spell you cast will resolve before counterflux. So counterflux only effects spells that were cast before it.
It's not completely useless in standard I've had epic buff/burn/ counters battles in chaos matches with my friends countering all spells afterward would be awesome.