Cards/Secret Lair Drop/Counterbalance
Counterbalance
Enchantment
Oracle Text
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may reveal the top card of your library. If you do, counter that spell if it has the same mana value as the revealed card.
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop (SLD)
- Number
- #1220
- Rarity
- Rare
- Artist
- Rope Arrow
- Frame
- 2015
- Border
- Borderless
- Language
- EN
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
- USD
- $17.15
- USD Foil
- $23.01
- EUR
- €13.42
- EUR Foil
- €15.86
Indicative figures.
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Rulings2
If an opponent casts a spell with X in its mana cost, the mana value of that spell takes the value of X into account. If you reveal a card with X in its mana cost, X is 0. For example, if your opponent casts Blaze with X=1, Counterbalance will counter that spell if you reveal a card with mana value 2, but it won't counter that spell if you reveal a Blaze of your own.
If an opponent casts half of a split card (for example, Hit), it won't be countered if you reveal that same split card. The mana value of a split card is determined by the combined mana cost of its two halves, but the mana value of Hit is determined using only that half's mana cost.
Print Details
- Set
- Secret Lair Drop (SLD)
- Number
- #1220
- Rarity
- Rare
- Artist
- Rope Arrow
- Frame
- 2015
- Border
- Borderless
- Language
- EN
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
Value
- USD
- $17.15
- USD Foil
- $23.01
- EUR
- €13.42
- EUR Foil
- €15.86
Indicative figures.






