Gainsay
World Championship Decks 2002 shh26sb • uncommon
- Set
- World Championship Decks 2002
- Collector number
- shh26sb
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana blue mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Roger Raupp
- Finish
- Gold
What it does
Counter target blue spell.
"I'd be happy to stop contradicting you, Urza, just as soon as you start being right."— Bo Levar, planeswalker
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Gainsay was originally released in the Invasion expansion for the Magic: The Gathering trading card game in 2000, designed as a highly efficient counterspell specifically tailored to interact with blue and black permanents. The card was selected for inclusion in the 2002 World Championship Decks, a series of preconstructed products that replicated the exact 75-card tournament decks used by top-placing players at the previous year's World Championship. This particular iteration comes from the decklist of Sim 'shh26sb' Han Hoe, who utilized the card to navigate the competitive meta of the time.
The art for Gainsay, created by illustrator Greg Staples, features a contemplative and somewhat ominous visual style characteristic of the Invasion block’s aesthetic. The design intent was to provide control decks with a potent sideboard option that could disrupt opponent strategies at a low mana cost. Within the competitive community, the card is remembered for its strategic utility and its role in defining the tempo of games during its tenure in the Standard tournament format.
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