Counterspell (Pauper)
Counterspell appears in 27.4% of Pauper decks in the last 30 days (26 decks), averaging 4.0 copies in the main deck. It is played above all in Affinity.
Official MTGO results and paper tournaments, data provided by TopDeck.gg, updated . How we count
Share of decks
27.4%
not enough history for the previous period
vs previous 30 days
Decks
26
26 main, 0 sideboard
Avg. copies
4.0
in the main deck
Win rate
60%
4 top 8 (challenges only)
Weekly data
| Week from | Share of decks |
|---|---|
| 2026-08-05 | – |
| 2026-08-12 | – |
| 2026-08-19 | – |
| 2026-08-26 | – |
| 2026-09-02 | – |
| 2026-09-09 | – |
| 2026-09-16 | – |
| 2026-09-23 | – |
| 2026-09-30 | – |
| 2026-10-07 | – |
| 2026-10-14 | – |
| 2026-10-21 | 27.4% |
Played together with
| Card | Together | Lift |
|---|---|---|
| Lórien Revealed | 96% | 3.3 |
| Brainstorm | 69% | 3.7 |
| Baleful Strix | 69% | 3.3 |
| Cast Down | 69% | 3.1 |
| Dispel | 65% | 3.7 |
| Thorn of the Black Rose | 65% | 3.7 |
| Snuff Out | 62% | 3.7 |
| Extract a Confession | 62% | 3.7 |
| Contaminated Aquifer | 62% | 3.7 |
| Plunder the Trollshaws | 62% | 3.4 |
| Bojuka Bog | 62% | 2.5 |
| Dimir Aqueduct | 50% | 3.4 |
| Augur of Bolas | 46% | 3.7 |
| Ninja of the Deep Hours | 46% | 3.7 |
| Spellstutter Sprite | 46% | 3.7 |
| Faerie Seer | 42% | 3.7 |
| Seething Landscape | 38% | 3.7 |
| Mukotai Ambusher | 38% | 3.7 |
| Murmuring Mystic | 35% | 3.7 |
| Suffocating Fumes | 35% | 3.3 |
- Together
- decks with this card that also play the other one (main deck)
- Lift
- how much more often than chance: 1 = unrelated, above 1 = played together on purpose
Archetypes by metagame share
| Archetype | Meta | Play it |
|---|---|---|
| Affinity | 8.7% | 3% |
| Dimir Control | 7.6% | 100% |
| Mono-Blue Terror | 3.8% | 96% |
| WUR (unclassified) | 2.3% | 94% |
| Mono-Blue (unclassified) | 2.0% | 93% |
| WUB (unclassified) | 1.9% | 64% |
| UBRG (unclassified) | 1.6% | 8% |
| UB (unclassified) | 1.2% | 100% |