How much interest would there be in a counterspell-free format?

[Purple-Smart Heart]

As the title says.

Counters are and always have been terrible game design. Removal is one thing, but effectively controlling what your opponent gets to play is the opposite of fun gameplay. I've never even met a U-control player that had fun playing it, they just know it's overpowered so they play it. Blue already has bounce for its removal "niche" anyway, having counters on top is literal insanity.

I'm curious how many others feel the same and if there would be enough interest to make an official format that bans all counterspell cards.

[Miaou]

Originally posted by Goddess of Eternity:

Originally posted by Miaou:

I just scoop to the first counterspell.

It's a digital card game, nothing to win or lose except time and fun.

Was wondering how I got all my free wins

Well, now you know. Enjoy it.

[Soji]

If you and your friends want to make house rules where there's no counter spells or w/e that's your prerogative, but as an official format this sounds boring. Also thinking that mono blue is OP is very curious. I just assume by op you mean 'annoying to deal with' cause nothing shows that being the case

Also just figured i'd point out, i play monoblue and enjoy it a lot because blue tempo is a pretty interesting take on aggro imo.

[PJ]

Battlefield Format

A format for builders who don't want their work interrupted and generals who hate when their troops go missing. No interaction, players compete to see who can build their board states the fastest and then smash them into each other. Prepare yourself for glorious, honorable combat!

Rules:
- All permanents and players have Hexproof.
- if a card targets All Players, then instead it targets You.
- If a card targets "All Permanents", "All Creatures" or All of any other type, then instead it targets All [of that type] That You Control instead.
- Cards with affects that prevent players from winning the game are banned.
- Cards with effects that cause players to lose the game are banned.
- Spells that can only target permanents you don't control are banned.
- Spells that can only target opponents are banned.


All I can see when I look at this is mono-red aggro.

[Nubbles]

Consequence of no counterspells is everyone plays unstoppable combo's, which really doesn't seem fun to me.

[MΛRCUS HΞLIUS]

Now that I have stopped laughing...
Yeah sure why not? Although you may as well just have a 'no blue' format...
And on that note you may as well just rotate it through all the colours every week...

[Minmataro]

You take away counters, board wipes, burns, removal etc and its not much of a game anymore. Just creatures and tokens.

[GoddessofEternity]

Originally posted by MΛRCUS HΞLIUS:

Now that I have stopped laughing...
Yeah sure why not? Although you may as well just have a 'no blue' format...
And on that note you may as well just rotate it through all the colours every week...

Its so easy to laugh at the people like this, they are beneath me.

[The Sylvan Learning Center]

How much interest would there be in a padded room where I am locked inside in a straight jacket and wizards puppetmasters feed me "food" (heals me for 2 life) 3 times a day.

[GoddessofEternity]

Originally posted by The Sylvan Learning Center:

How much interest would there be in a padded room where I am locked inside in a straight jacket and wizards puppetmasters feed me "food" (heals me for 2 life) 3 times a day.

Sounds fun, want me to arrange that for you?

[PJ]

Originally posted by The Sylvan Learning Center:

How much interest would there be in a padded room where I am locked inside in a straight jacket and wizards puppetmasters feed me "food" (heals me for 2 life) 3 times a day.

Three free artifacts of any kind per turn is OP and your padded room should be banned.

[Sonic Mirage 🎸]

ZERO

[StuffedPlatypusLuvsOrigamiRabbit]

Skill issue

[FriendlyRaid]

They could easily remedy this problem by making more cards that can't be countered. Right now there is no way to counterplay blue counterspell decks.

[lockwoodx]

Counters aren't really a problem unless their deck is 80% counters. Then they're just a jerk.

[JusticeJudge]

Counterspells are a necessary evil to stop combo decks. So they are fine they only suck if you get completely mana scewed you can play around them much easier if you can hit all your land drops and double spell. Some of the best magic you can play in Bo3 is control mirror to bait out each others resources. Winning by time in a control mirror is extremely satisfying you get rewarded for being better and doing your turns quicker then your opponent due to the time limit. You can bet if i'm against a control deck i'm going to make you kill me and not just concede you will win more matches due to time a lot.