Time Distortion [Card]

[Superman]

Time Distortion
U
Instant
Kicker: Remove 2 cards in your hand from the game.

You may remove a card in your hand from the game instead of paying Time Distortion's mana cost.

Counter target spell targeting a spell or a permanent.

If you paid the kicker cost, rearange the stack.

[Ephraim]

There are a lot of problems with this spell. For starters, although this doesn't hit every spell that either Flash Counter or Envelop can hit, it does overlap a great deal with both of them. Thus, I would not cost this any cheaper than . Two, because countering spells is firmly blue, no matter how steep the alternate casting cost might seem, it needs to somehow enforce that this card is playable only in a blue deck. Whether you achieve that by asking for a player to discard blue cards or islands is up to you (or think of some other alternate casting cost that focuses on blueness.) Three, stack rearrangement is a sticky point. In my opinion, it isn't even really feasible alone on a rare card. You seem to have included it here as an unrelated add-on to a card that really wants to be just a counter.

[Machinus]

How about just "counter target spell with a single target" for 1U? This would be a useful card but far from broken, as it can't stop permanents, many spells which avoid using targeting, with wording such as that found on impulse, browbeat, and balance, and many strong cards have multiple targets, such as rack and ruin, fire/ice, and rushing river.

RFGing a blue card gets you force of will. Since this isn't nearly that strong and is very well costed at 1U, there should be either a much lower ACC or some other ability, if any additional text is to be added.