For a card such as {Swift Silence}, when would you use it? Don't people just cast one spell at a time and if you let it go it can't be countered anymore?
Now that I think about it more, I guess you could use it after someone {Mana Leak}s your mana leak...but there probably won't even be enough mana to cast the swift silence after all that. :p Am I missing something with this card?
I could see it's main use in a multiplayer commander game where your sitting on it's mana cost watching everyone play a bunch of spells then going, "nope {swift silence} mwuhahahaha
{Swift Silence} vs Storm.
i was under the belief that splice onto arcane only made the base spell gain an additional effect, not the splice spell making a copy that goes onto the stack.
Quote from: scarsabrex on June 04, 2012, 08:15:12 PM
i was under the belief that splice onto arcane only made the base spell gain an additional effect, not the splice spell making a copy that goes onto the stack.
This^
You only need one Counterspell.
You can also use it after some stacking over spells. For example, you attack with a 2/1, they use an {arc trail}, and you use {giant growth} before it resolves, and he casts another arc trail and you a {mutagenic growth}. They {counterspell} it and finally, after all this, you play the {swift silence}, getting to cancel all the damage to you, all your growths and drawing 4 cards
Couldn't cast arc traill during combat let alone on top of other spells on the stack replace it with shocks and your good to go
Quote from: Mentonin on June 05, 2012, 10:49:26 AM
You can also use it after some stacking over spells. For example, you attack with a 2/1, they use an {arc trail}, and you use {giant growth} before it resolves, and he casts another arc trail and you a {mutagenic growth}. They {counterspell} it and finally, after all this, you play the {swift silence}, getting to cancel all the damage to you, all your growths and drawing 4 cards
note colors and amount of mana used.
Possibly good for a {reverberated} {goblin grenade}
Or any of the other stacking agro combos out there.