MTG Salvation

Neutralizing Blast 1U
Instant (Uncommon)
Counter target multicolored spell.
"To defeat your enemies, you must remove their ability to make war against you."

Source: http://puremtgo.com/articles/counter-target-siege-rhino

awesome card. Best counterspell in standard I think. I would main board this in my temur deck

A two mana conditional counter spell? Good enough for me! I'll take 5.

edit: Disdainful stroke might be better, but this is a solid side board option.

Interesting...probably just worse than Disdainful Stroke in this format, though. Maybe if you want a two mana counterspell that hits Jeskai Ascendancy and Siege Rhino?

I wanted a cheap burn spell and a cheap counterspell. And they delivered...? They delivered?!? I'm in shock. It's almost like I can counter on WotC.

edit: Disdainful Stroke might prove to be better, but still...

I prefer disdainful stroke, but this is a very meta dependant card, I think too many cards I want to counter are single coloured (elspeth, hornet queen)

I don't really see a place for this. Even the most dedicated multicolor decks run a pretty high count of monocolor spells, and this is almost completely dead against a fair portion of the metagame (UB Control, BG Constellation, Sligh). But even in most situations where you want to side this in, I have to imagine Disdainful Stoke is just better.

*** out of *****
Verdict: Average.

I'm thinking they're going to reveal some three mana or less multicolor (hybrid??) cycle that will make this somewhat relevant. It's probably a singleton or sideboard card for standard.. A three mana Cancel with benefits (like Dissolve) would be better, but I get excited when I see "1U" and "counter .. spell" on a card.

I guess it depends on what is happening in your local game store but the store I play in is getting dominated by

siege rhino
rakshasa deathdealer
fleecemane lion
abzan charm
anafenza

based decks

^ throw sorin into these decks as well

with a splash of sultai whip

Even if it doesn't see ANY play AT ALL (hint: it will)...I'm pretty happy it exists.

It might be good in Standard, but I doubt this will see play in Modern and beyond, where decks predominantly play monocoloured or colourless spells.

Oh well, Wizards always fixes Standard first...

I'm intrigued. This is an uncommon, so we're still to the set's common counterspell. Logic Knot is possible, but somewhat dubious to me.

Well this a good sideboard. Could potentially even be mainboard depending on the standard.

I need foils of this... Lots and lots of foils...

If I wasn't already trying to figure out what to cut for Mana Drain, I would look at this for EDH, at worst it says "counter target general".

Solid but narrow. Decent Uncommon, all things told. Could see some Standard play, and good sideboard materiel for Limited.

How many of those most played cards in standard are hit by this, but not disdainful stroke?
Not any of the top removal or control spells like seize, cut, downfall, strike, etc, which are monocolored.
Most of the popular beaters and finishers are also mono, courser of kruphix, wingmate roc, goblin rabblemaster, hornet queen, doomwake giant, stormbreath dragon, etc, even dorks and weenies (seeker, llanowar #214, caryatid, etc)
Of the multicolored spells, siege rhino, sorin, butcher of the horde, utter end, etc are 4+ CMC anyway

So for non-overlap, you've got the cycle of charms and ascendency enchantments, and then pharika/anafenza, not exactly powerhouses. Am I missing anything? Rakshasha I suppose
Granted, there will be changeups to that card pool with FRF and onwards, but what relevant 1-3 cmc multicolored cards are being added? Nothing spoiled so far.

I'm hoping we'll get some permanent cards with hybrid in the main cost to cast them, which are good for devotion decks. That would give a good kind of thing for this to counter, right?

At first I read it as "counter target monocolored spell" and nearly shat myself. StillStill seems playable as a 1-2 of depending on the meta.

As far as the current meta goes, I can see this being nice against the Abzan agro matchup. Allows for a bile blight and a counter spell on turn four.

Quote from clan_iraq »

How many of those most played cards in standard are hit by this, but not disdainful stroke?
Not any of the top removal or control spells like seize, cut, downfall, strike, etc, which are monocolored.
Most of the popular beaters and finishers are also mono, courser of kruphix, wingmate roc, goblin rabblemaster, hornet queen, doomwake giant, stormbreath dragon, etc, even dorks and weenies (seeker, llanowar #214, caryatid, etc)
Of the multicolored spells, siege rhino, sorin, butcher of the horde, utter end, etc are 4+ CMC anyway

So for non-overlap, you've got the cycle of charms and ascendency enchantments, and then pharika/anafenza, not exactly powerhouses. Am I missing anything? Rakshasha I suppose
Granted, there will be changeups to that card pool with FRF and onwards, but what relevant 1-3 cmc multicolored cards are being added? Nothing spoiled so far.

Don't forget Mantis Rider.

i guess we will see this card in quite a few blue sideboards.

Quote from Valanarch »

Quote from clan_iraq »

How many of those most played cards in standard are hit by this, but not disdainful stroke?
Not any of the top removal or control spells like seize, cut, downfall, strike, etc, which are monocolored.
Most of the popular beaters and finishers are also mono, courser of kruphix, wingmate roc, goblin rabblemaster, hornet queen, doomwake giant, stormbreath dragon, etc, even dorks and weenies (seeker, llanowar #214, caryatid, etc)
Of the multicolored spells, siege rhino, sorin, butcher of the horde, utter end, etc are 4+ CMC anyway

So for non-overlap, you've got the cycle of charms and ascendency enchantments, and then pharika/anafenza, not exactly powerhouses. Am I missing anything? Rakshasha I suppose
Granted, there will be changeups to that card pool with FRF and onwards, but what relevant 1-3 cmc multicolored cards are being added? Nothing spoiled so far.

Don't forget Mantis Rider.

heh, knew I missed something!

So this means there will be plenty of multicolor or hybrid cards in Dragons of Tarkir, right? Otherwise why would they put it in the in-between expansion?