Magic: The Gathering's Double Masters 2022 Previews – Day Six Highlights
With the end of the preview season in sight, the pace is picking up for Magic: The Gathering’s Double Masters 2022 spoilers. We’ve had dozens of cards today, and with many revealed it can be hard to focus on the ones that really matter.
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In today’s previews, we had not one, but two of the game’s best counterspells, an Eldrazi that’s banned in Commander, and a card we’ve not seen in 2012 that will pair nicely with your Streets of New Capenna pulls. Here are the best cards revealed on day six of Double Masters 2022’s preview season.
One generic, two instant:
If it’s not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell’s mana cost.
Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner’s graveyard.
Easily one of the best counterspells in the game, Force of Negation does it all. You can play it for free, which is generally a good dividing line between the good and the best counterspells, and it even exiles the spell you counter to prevent any sneaky graveyard recursion.
This isn’t the only great counterspell we’ve seen today, as it was also confirmed we’ll be getting Mana Drain. However, we’ve seen Mana Drain twice since we last saw Force of Negation – the original Double Masters and Commander Legends – which makes this the more exciting reprint.
Notably, Force of Negation is legal in more formats than Mana Drain. It’s legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander, whereas Mana Drain is only legal in Vintage and Commander (in fact, it’s even banned in Legacy). If you’re wanting to upgrade your control decks, pulling a Force of Negation is one of the
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