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Itll take a full board wipe to extinguish your counters, otherwise they just stock up and shift around your other creatures

Even in Legacy, it has been tournament-winning, getting multiple uses in UB Ninjas and returning to hard counterspell status in revived Faeries decks

But Commander players helped keep the flame alive, and this year saw Counterspell triumphantly reemerge as a cornerstone of Modern control decks reuniting it with Lightning Bolt once again on the format staples list

The fact that the second card is so loosely restricted, and Force is so universal (and technically hard-castable) makes it playable in any fair blue deck, and so gives a large portion of the format the necessary panic button to discourage super-aggressive combo