Time Hiccup

[ghostchild]

Time Hiccup
U
Instant
Counter target spell.
Draw a card.
You skip your next turn.

Here's my attempt at making a balanced one-mana hard counter. Personally I can't tell if it's really good or really terrible, so hopefully it's neither and is fine. This also definitely needs a better name, but Time Hiccup's OK for a working title.

Current Wording:
Time Hiccup
U
Instant
Counter target spell.
You skip your next turn.
Cycling U

[chrissss]

I think its broken like this, make it :

Time Hiccup

Instant
Counter target spell an opponent controls
Draw a card.
You skip your next turn.

like this you cant counter your own 0-1 cost card, get a card and time walk.

[parallax]

How the hell could you get a Time Walk out of this?

The card seems really bad, but MaRo says we need bad rares.

[Anusien]

Yeah, this isn't a bad rare.  It's extremely good at protecting your own combo spells the turn you're going off.  I don't think you ought to continue down this path since it's potentially ridic. good (counterspell for U?), but if you do you def. lose the cantrip.

This is also exceptionally good at protecting Wildfire.

[ghostchild]

Yeah I realized this was too powerful with the cantrip. Initially, I figured that just makes it a 1-for-1 counter, since you trade this for your opponent's spell, then you break even on cards since they draw on their extra turn. But it still seemed too good. Cycling this away when you don't need it is an acceptable substitute.

[parallax]

As a general rule, I'm against undercosted spells with huge drawbacks. Usually, there's some way to get around the drawback that makes the card too good. In this case, winning the same turn you're countering a spell. Why are you trying to make a balanced one-mana hard counter? There's no reason for it.