Uploaded May 2010 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Mind Sludge - It has been called the only reason to play Counterspells in the current Standard environment (there are actually two reasons... the other one is in our deck).

I am playing basic Swamp this weekend because of the "I have must-counter sorceries in my deck" factor. This is a pretty surprising couple of games with my current favorite Standard deck, Grixis Hits:

4 Gatekeeper of Malakir
2 Malakir Bloodwitch

2 Divination
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
4 Spreading Seas

4 Blightning
2 Countersquall
4 Cruel Ultimatum
4 Sedraxis Specter
1 Terminate

4 Lightning Bolt

4 Creeping Tar Pit
4 Crumbling Necropolis
1 Dragonskull Summit
2 Drowned Catacomb
4 Island
4 Lavaclaw Reaches
2 Mountain
4 Scalding Tarn
1 Swamp

sb:
2 Duress
2 Malakir Bloodwitch
1 Sorin Markov
4 Vampire Nighthawk
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
2 Countersquall
3 Terminate

More awesome sauce at the blog:

fivewithflores.com/2010/05/how-to-dismantle-a-mind-sludge