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LegalGame Changer Salt 2.01CounterspellEDHREC #190
You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
Counter target spell.
Why is this card good?
Force of Will is the premier free counterspell — your insurance policy against losing on the spot.
The whole point is the alternative cost: you can counter a game-ending spell on an opponent's turn while tapped out, or interact during your own combo turn without holding up mana. That "free interaction" is what makes it a Game Changer and a staple in high-power and cEDH blue decks. In those pods, protecting your own combo or stopping someone else's is worth the steep cost.
That cost is real, though: you're spending two cards (FoW plus a pitched blue card) and a life to counter one spell. That's brutal card disadvantage in slower, grindy games.
Play it in cEDH and competitive blue control/combo decks with high blue-card density. Skip it in casual or battlecruiser pods, where you'll rarely face turn-3 wins and the two-for-one tempo loss isn't justified. Decks light on blue cards also struggle to reliably pitch for it.
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