Countervailing Winds
Hour of Devastation (HOU) #32 · Common · Instant
Mana cost: {2}{U}
Counter target spell unless its controller pays {1} for each card in your graveyard.
Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
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Illustrated by Tyler Jacobson · Released July 14, 2017
Prices
- Nonfoil: $0.19 USD · €0.17 EUR
- Foil: $0.54 USD · €0.68 EUR
Nonfoil price since July 15, 2026: down $0.04 USD (17.4%) to $0.19 USD; low $0.14 USD, high $0.24 USD.
Printings
- Amonkhet Remastered #56 (AKR) · Common · 2020
- Hour of Devastation #32 (this printing) · Common · 2017 · $0.19 USD
Legality
- Standard: Not legal
- Alchemy: Not legal
- Pioneer: Legal
- Historic: Legal
- Modern: Legal
- Brawl: Legal
- Legacy: Legal
- Timeless: Legal
- Vintage: Legal
- Pauper: Legal
- Commander: Legal
- Penny: Legal
- Oathbreaker: Legal
- Duel: Legal
Rulings
- 2017-07-14 · wotc — Count the number of cards in your graveyard as Countervailing Winds resolves to determine how much mana the controller of the target spell must pay to avoid the spell being countered. Countervailing Winds is still on the stack at this time and won’t count toward this number.
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