Yeah, at 3 mana you want a hard counter, true. But being so splashable, as well as common, I guess they didn't feel the need to make it any better. Perhaps there are some stronger counterspells in the set.
Magic Lampoon should be revealing the full spoiler soon though eh?
maybe once wotc relizezes that sorcery speed draws arnt good at all they might accually start printing good counterspells again, also blue is jsut frusteratiing to play agianst not insanely diffuclult, you can still win but you jsut have to play well and use those skills you picked up over the years, now its no fun if you olny win now is it? Also how do you tink the blue player feels when somone drops a turn 2 troll astetic with the blue player having olny 1 land, its like that commerical where you see somone drop a can on the road infront of a native american and the dude starts to cry, its alot like that
through your atrocious grammar and spelling, i managed to salvage that you think Wizards believes sorcery-speed draw spells for blue to be good. i think it should be fairly obvious that Wizards knows that sorcery-speed drawing is much worse than instant-speed drawing. they made all of blue's 9E cantrips sorceries to combat the persistent power of mono-blue control. Core Set cantrips are usually bad anyway, but in this case they may be giving blue nowhere to fall back on, which would signal a significant decrease in blue's card-drawing power in the future.
for the rest of the post you seemed to alternate between two seemingly disparate points of view. actually, i'm not even sure what you were saying. every time i read it i come out thinking something different. are you a blue player and believe that blue is getting "shafted" once again? your reason that blue should get a turn 1 counter - the turn 2 Troll Ascetic - would only ever apply again to a format in which Force Spike is already legal. Mirrodin and Ravnica will never be in the same Standard format together, so a turn 1 counterspell in Ravnica would do nothing to change this situation.
that aside, i believe Convolute to be fairly decent, and it'll probably last a little longer in effect than Mana Leak will. though, in this metagame of w/u/b/r/G decks, the acceleration might be enough to overcome it.
Well, maybe wotc thinks blue ISN'T supposed to have a turn 1 counter. Why should it, really? Every color has situations it can't get out of by itself, and for blue this situation is turn 2 Troll Ascetic.
Except in Extended. After the third rotation, the earliest set will be Mirrodin and the Core Sets will be 8th, 9th and 10th.
A minor point, to be sure, but an important one.
That could be incentive for WotC to put Force Spike in 10th. It certainly isn't too powerful IMO.
I like this card. It's not too strong, but it's playable in the right environment. With so much acceleration right now, maybe that 3 mana from Mana Leak won't be enough, maybe you'll need that 4.
I believe this card will be mitigated to block use only and that's only if RBC is full of bad decks.
Basically, I don't expect this card to see play. HERE'S HOPING FOR UNDERMINE/ABSORB REPRINTS!
That counters a spell with converted mana cost 4 or less.
This one counters target spell unless its controller pays
I think we need to clarify what is traditionally meant by the term "strictly worse"; if, given two cards A and B, A performs exactly the same or better as B in every situation, then B is "strictly worse" than A.
The term doesn't even apply here.
I would hope I wouldn't need an example to clarify this, but here is one. Opponent draws, taps one of his 6 mountains, and plays Shock on you while you are at 2 life. The only card that even does anything in this situation is the one you've described as "strictly worse."
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Magic Lampoon should be revealing the full spoiler soon though eh?
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through your atrocious grammar and spelling, i managed to salvage that you think Wizards believes sorcery-speed draw spells for blue to be good. i think it should be fairly obvious that Wizards knows that sorcery-speed drawing is much worse than instant-speed drawing. they made all of blue's 9E cantrips sorceries to combat the persistent power of mono-blue control. Core Set cantrips are usually bad anyway, but in this case they may be giving blue nowhere to fall back on, which would signal a significant decrease in blue's card-drawing power in the future.
for the rest of the post you seemed to alternate between two seemingly disparate points of view. actually, i'm not even sure what you were saying. every time i read it i come out thinking something different. are you a blue player and believe that blue is getting "shafted" once again? your reason that blue should get a turn 1 counter - the turn 2 Troll Ascetic - would only ever apply again to a format in which Force Spike is already legal. Mirrodin and Ravnica will never be in the same Standard format together, so a turn 1 counterspell in Ravnica would do nothing to change this situation.
that aside, i believe Convolute to be fairly decent, and it'll probably last a little longer in effect than Mana Leak will. though, in this metagame of w/u/b/r/G decks, the acceleration might be enough to overcome it.
* Feuerdrache shrugs.
i guess we'll see, eh?
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That could be incentive for WotC to put Force Spike in 10th. It certainly isn't too powerful IMO.
I like this card. It's not too strong, but it's playable in the right environment. With so much acceleration right now, maybe that 3 mana from Mana Leak won't be enough, maybe you'll need that 4.
Basically, I don't expect this card to see play. HERE'S HOPING FOR UNDERMINE/ABSORB REPRINTS!
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I think we need to clarify what is traditionally meant by the term "strictly worse"; if, given two cards A and B, A performs exactly the same or better as B in every situation, then B is "strictly worse" than A.
The term doesn't even apply here.
I would hope I wouldn't need an example to clarify this, but here is one. Opponent draws, taps one of his 6 mountains, and plays Shock on you while you are at 2 life. The only card that even does anything in this situation is the one you've described as "strictly worse."