Counterblast

[Machinus]

Counterblast
2UU/3UU
Instant
You may return two islands you control to their owner's hand instead of paying Counterblast's casting cost.
Counter target spell.

Time and Tide
Visions uncommon. The design version of the card with this name was originally a blue mirror of Fireblast: counter target spell with an alternate casting cost of returning two Islands to your hand.

Since Time and Tide doesn't have anything to do with this design, we can assume development changed it for some reason. My question is this: do you think it would be too good? In what environments? For comparison:



Thwart only saw brief play in Masques Standard. Obviously Counterblast would be stronger, but would it be played in Vintage/Legacy?

[Anusien]

I don't want to invade Thwart's design space this closely.  Could we make some other variant on countermagic, like Misdirection or Stifle?

[parallax]

If you just want to discuss  a hypothetical two-island Thwart, I think it would see play in Threshold in Legacy as a 2-of over counterspell.

If you're trying to submit a new card, I like the idea of making it a Misdirection.

[asi]

I don't want to invade Thwart's design space this closely.  Could we make some other variant on countermagic, like Misdirection or Stifle?

I am demanding a pitchable or "free" stifle. Stifle is already so shocking (first turn on fetchland, on Oath activation, even on Lackeys and Piledrivers) that it would be really fun to surprise the opponent even more by not even having a land untapped. Well, Daze is a 1U Force Spike, so maybe there could be a 1U Stifle?