MTG Salvation

Really interesting card, super disappointing that this will only ever be a better cancel post-combat. I guess it handles in-combat tricks, but honestly this is a little disappointing once you start to think about how limited it is.

So close to being super good. Problem is it's a counterspell you can only use cost effectively on your turn. Mind you, you could still use it for full price on an enemies.

Its rarity pissed me off.

Cancel that costs U only on the last half of your turn and only in an aggressive deck...

Sounds sideboard-y, maybe against Settle the Wreckage

How good is this going to be compared to Lookout's Dispersal that is almost always going to cost 1U?

Take this, Bright Reprisal!
Take this, Impeccable Timing!
Take this, Settle the Wreckage!
Take this, Ætherize!
Take this, Wing Shards... Whoops.

It'd be so much better if it lasted until you're next turn. :/

Sorry if there was a as to reduce to U outside your turn then this would be worthy as rare.

All that this stops is Settle The Wreckage. I guess you sideboard this in if you're playing UB / UR Tempo Pirates and are going against W.

Edric, Spymaster of Trest probably would want to test this for EDH.

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Take this, Bright Reprisal!
Take this, Impeccable Timing!
Take this, Settle the Wreckage!
Take this, Ætherize!
Take this, Wing Shards... Whoops.

You missed teferi's protection

Absolutely narrow card. Should be Uncommon but I suppose they don't want that many floating around in Limited?

This card would be obnoxious in Limited at uncommon, especially draft. It basically says "Your opponent can't cast spells during your combat step."

This is the support card that Party Crasher deserved.

Yeah if we see more cards like party crasher it could be hilarious to see someone get hosed by a better counterspell post combat on anyone's turn. 😄

Could this potentially see play in Modern Infect? I know they play Spell Pierce which is similar but different.

if ever in modern, this is kind of card, that if enemies are aware of it it becomes useless really quick.

You're basically paying U for a Negate in your turn.

But the flexibility is good.

Wizards are trying to make people play Cancel in Standard, and you've to applaud them for giving small motivations/payoffs to do so.

Not necessarily, if it's worth playing it like in infect, it may be worth bluffing it. Lots of infect games come down to whether or not the stack of pumps resolves.

This card feels like it's one of those that could go either way with being rare or uncommon and being rare irritates me slightly. It's not terrible though, if a tempo deck comes along in Standard it might find a place there

It's one of those draft first pack swearing moments.

Card is plenty reasonable. It's a cancel with upside. Swinging with anything let's you more easily resolve threats second main. Sure you can't 1 mana counter and get a swing off glorybringer in standard, but that doesn't make it unplayable. This also fills out UG merfolks bag of tricks pretty well. The deck is already pretty low cmc wise and maybe a 2-2 split with this and spell pierce will make the deck strong enough via permission to compete. It's potentially blossoming defense/deep dive's protection during combat and it's a general hard answer outside of it...seems modal enough to at least try. Maybe a merfolk/pummeler UG energy brew >_>.

I'm glad it's not uncommon, because that would show up enough to become obnoxious in formats where that matters.

I dont know if it's modern playable, but could be? I'm not sure this beats dispel, swan song, stubborn denial, spell snare, etc. where you want one of these other 1 cmc counters, but Stubbs looks terrible on paper for the format and GDS rocks 4. Maybe this is stronger than it looks.

This is stronger than it looks, IMO. Unless you have good reason to, remember to cast your sorcery-speed spells in your post-combat main phase. It's not so hot at stopping opposing game-winning spells, but I can see Legacy decks like Food Chain and Aluren attack with a dumb creature, then force their namesake spells through counter walls with this.

I was really hoping this art was going to be a new Piracy variant.