Such a complicated card that Stephen Menendian wrote an entire book about it. Free card draw is never really free when it changes how you build your deck, sequence your lands, and play every turn.
Have you read it?
Mercadian Masques gave Counterspell its first foil printing. Two blue mana, one line of text, and still one of the cleanest answers ever printed.
Which Counterspell printing is your favorite?
You can’t even trust your own creatures. Against the right deck, Bribery turns their best threat into your win condition.
What is the best creature you have ever taken with it?
It’s time to move to Mercadian Masques, the first set of the Masques block. Brainstorm already saw some play, but Onslaught fetchlands turned it into something much stronger.
In Old Frame Vintage, decks using four copies became so dominant that we had to restrict it.
What do you usually put back?
If you manage to resolve one of these, your lands won’t matter that much anymore. Four mana turning into three every turn is how big plays start.
What do you usually ramp into with it?