Always a chance! If I do, you’ll hear about it 🙂

Any chance, if you haven’t yet, you’ll be testing this or bringing it to a tourney soon? Totally interested to hear how it performs and matches up with the new format players.

Part of the allure of countermagic in these decks has always been protecting our own threats, but Mutagenic Growth does a pretty good job of that in Modern, since so much removal is toughness-based (Bolt, Brutality, Lightning Axe, Gut Shot, Anger, Dismember, Last Hope, etc.).

Then the countermagic that does exist is too slow for many faster matchups at two mana, so it’s mostly good vs. combo and control. Against control decks, drawing two with Light Up is better than one-for-one trading with Leak. Against combo, pressuring them more aggressively is a stronger plan, since with no threat we’re just treading water.

I’ve been happy with 4 counterspells, especially alongside Light Up; the idea is build a nice board and then hide behind one Leak/Pierce, which buys enough time to win.

Tried it but overall it felt too low-impact for me. I think a major draw to Temur is how much permission you get to run, but that makes Light Up awkward and I think we want to be using this type of more flexible cantrip (can act as card advantage). Wrenn improves the CC manabase by letting us fetch, say, Vents/Forest and not worry about having access to white or multiple blue down the road. But an even bigger draw to white is Path, which lets us hang with a lot of different strategies; there’s still no good removal option in RUG.

Not at all, it’s flex. But check the linked article above—I think Copter does a lot for the deck at 1 copy.