Counterbore
Instant
Mana cost: {3}{U}{U}
How we read this card
Counter target spell. Search its controller's graveyard, hand, and library for all cards with the same name as that spell and exile them. Then that player shuffles.
on-cast —
- makes counter a spell
on-cast — searches a library
- makes search spell
on-cast —
- makes shuffle a library
Causes: counter a spell, search spell , shuffle a library.
Cares about: nothing.
Works well with
a library is searched — 982 cards in the game can cause this (Counterbore is one).
When a spell searches a library thanks to Counterbore:
- River Song — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
- Archivist of Oghma — gains you 1 life
- Wan Shi Tong, Librarian — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
- Ob Nixilis, Unshackled — makes an opponent sacrifice a creature
an instant is cast — 3,931 cards in the game can cause this (Counterbore is one).
When Counterbore is cast:
- Lunar Mystic — draws you 1 card
- Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time — grants rebound
- Repeated Reverberation — copies an ability
- Riku of Two Reflections — copies a spell
- Sword of Wealth and Power — copies a spell
- Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
- Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — brings a card back
- Harness the Storm — brings a card back
- In the Eye of Chaos — counters a spell
- Niblis of Frost — taps a creature an opponent controls
427 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
anything is cast — 31,128 cards in the game can cause this (Counterbore is one).
When Counterbore is cast:
- Windrider Wizard — draws you 1 card
- Relic Amulet — puts a charge counter on itself
- Rockslide Sorcerer — deals 1 damage
- Umara Wizard // Umara Skyfalls — grants flying
- Alania, Divergent Storm — makes an opponent draw 1 card
- Umara Mystic — gets +2/+0
- Master of Winds — triggers
5 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.