Those shenanigans get more frequent the higher power you go, too, and as soon as youre at a table where everyone has a combo or early win con, a counterspells flexibility at protecting your combo and stopping someone elses is key
Gavin Verhey all but promised it would resurface, and with a packed release schedule, the hybrid mana conversation is likely to get loud again sooner rather than later
Often this also means acting preemptively anticipating your opponents next move and deploying an enchantment to block that possibility
Marcy: More for the cool art, but FF games are (traditionally) turn based RPGs, and this recreates a battle from FFVI, the game that really put FF on a lot of people's radars
(2023-10-13) Effects that last "for as long as that creature has a [kind of] counter on it," such as Aven Mimeomancer's, stop applying to Me, the immortal once it leaves the battlefield