Card Use

[Coffee Vampire]

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?

[Greg54js]

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 

[BlackJester]

{Swift Silence} vs Storm.

[DirtyMustachio]

{Swift Silence} vs Storm.

Or splice onto arcane

[scarsabrex]

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.

[BlackJester]

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.

[Mentonin]

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

[Poof]

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

[scarsabrex]

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.

[Wally]

Possibly good for a {reverberated} {goblin grenade}
Or any of the other stacking agro combos out there.