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    Default Mtg can you counterspell a land with an ability

    Mtg can you counterspell lands with some ability?

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    Default Re: Mtg can you counterspell a land with an ability

    Do you mean Stifle?

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    Default Re: Mtg can you counterspell a land with an ability

    Playing a land doesn't use the stack -- the land simply goes from your hand to the battlefield, and the land is already there by the time any player receives priority.

    There is nothing you can do to stop a player from playing a land. Once it's on the battlefield, however, you can destroy land with various effects (Strip Mine, Stone Rain, Armageddon), or cause them to be sacrificed (Wildfire, Death Cloud, etc.)

    If land would be put onto the battlefield as the result of a spell/ability, then of course you can counter that spell or ability to prevent the land from being put on the battlefield. For example, you can use Voidslime to counter a Cultivate, or to counter the activated ability of a Sakura-Tribe Elder.

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    Default Re: Mtg can you counterspell a land with an ability

    Don't forget you can also Stifle non-mana activated abilities of lands.

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    Default Re: Mtg can you counterspell a land with an ability

    There is nothing you can do to stop a player from playing a land.
    Not to complicate things, but there is Turf Wound, if you want to waste the card slots.

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    Default Re: Mtg can you counterspell a land with an ability

    But Turf Wound doesn't stop people from playing a land if they're already playing one.

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    Default Re: Mtg can you counterspell a land with an ability

    No, but it's the only thing that comes to mind that stops players from playing land at all.

 

 




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