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    Default how does counterspell work? magic the gathering

    how does a counterspell work?

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    Default Re: how does counterspell work? magic the gathering

    When someone plays a creature, an enchantment, a sorcery/instant/interrupt (they don't exist anymore I guess), a planeswalker, etc...if you have a counterspell in your hand, you just pay the mana cost that is stated in the upper right hand corner and say "counter it"...and then if your opponent doesn't have any counters on the stack, the spell that you are countering is put into the graveyard after the stack resolves...

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    Default Re: how does counterspell work? magic the gathering

    Almost. When you receive priority after an opponent plays a spell (anything other than a land), you play the counterspell just as you would play any other spell, targeting the spell your opponent played. When the counterspell resolves, the targeted spell is put into its owner's graveyard without taking effect.
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    Default Re: how does counterspell work? magic the gathering

    @Arix: That's basically what I said

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    Perhaps, I just wanted to be a bit more technical about it because I'm a jerk like that.
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