Countervailing Winds
Instant
Counter target spell unless its controller pays 
for each card in your graveyard.
Cycling (, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Cycling
- Set
- Amonkhet Remastered (AKR #56)
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana value
- 3
- Released
- 2020-08-13
- Artist
- Tyler Jacobson
- EDHREC rank
- #9,060
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
1
+
Fits any bracket
No Game Changer, land denial, extra turns or two-card combos.
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Salt Score
0.14
How much players resent seeing this card. The scale tops out around 3.1.
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Format legality
Standard
Not legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Standard Brawl
Not legal
Historic
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Alchemy
Not legal
Penny
Legal
Premodern
Not legal
PreDH
Not legal
Pauper EDH
Legal
Old School
Not legal
Future
Not legal
Gladiator
Legal
Rulings
- 2017-07-14
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.