Best Budget Counterspells for Commander

Counter target spell. Draw a card.

Counter target spell. Draw a card, then discard a card.

Counter target spell that targets a player.

Counter target spell. Its controller mills four cards.

Counter target spell. That spell's controller may draw a card.

Counter target blue spell.

Counter target spell. If you control a blue creature, draw a card, then discard a card.

Counter target blue spell. If it was a Jace planeswalker spell, scry 2.

Counter target spell. Look at its controller's hand.

Counter target nonblue spell.

Counter target spell that's the second spell cast this turn.

Counter target multicolored spell.

Counter target spell with mana value 4 or less.

Counter target spell. Look at the top four cards of your library, then put them back in any order.

Counter target spell. You gain 5 life.

As an additional cost to cast this spell, return a permanent you control to its owner's hand. Counter target spell.

Counter target spell. Draw a card.

Counter target spell. Return target permanent to its owner's hand.

Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for {1} or one mana of that creature's color.) Choose one or both — • Counter target spell. • Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Counter target spell. You may shuffle up to one target card from your graveyard into your library.

Counter target spell with mana value 1 or less.

Counter target red or green spell.

Counter target spell. If the amount of mana spent to cast that spell was less than its mana value, you draw a card.

Counter target spell. Its controller draws a card. Draw a card.

Counter target spell with mana value 4 or greater.

Choose one — • Counter target spell. • Tap up to two target creatures.

Counter target white or black spell.

Counter target spell. Create an X/X green Ooze creature token, where X is that spell's mana value.

Counter target spell if you control more creatures than that spell's controller.

Counter target colorless spell.

Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control.

This spell costs {2} less to cast if it targets a creature spell. Counter target spell.

Choose one — • Do Homework — Draw three cards. • Fight Crime — Counter target spell. Draw a card.

Choose one — • Counter target spell. • Surveil 2, then draw two cards. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)

Counter up to two target spells.

Counter target spell. Scry 2.

Flash When this creature enters, you may counter target spell.

This spell costs {U} less to cast if an opponent cast two or more spells this turn. Counter target spell.

This spell costs {1}{U} less to cast if it targets an instant or sorcery spell. Counter target spell.

Counter target spell that targets a permanent you control. Draw a card.

Counter target spell that targets a creature. Draw a card.

Counter target spell. Basic landcycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, its controller may put a creature card from their hand onto the battlefield.

Counter target spell. You may cast a spell that shares a card type with it from your hand without paying its mana cost.

Counter target spell.

Choose one or both — • Counter target spell. • Tap one or two target creatures.

This creature can't be blocked if an artifact entered the battlefield under your control this turn. {U}, Sacrifice this creature: Counter target spell that targets an artifact or creature you control.

Counter target spell. Its controller loses 3 life and you gain 3 life.

Choose one — • Counter target spell with mana value 2 or less. • Counter target red or green spell with mana value 6 or less.

Counter target spell that targets you or a permanent you control. Draw a card.

Counter target spell. Its controller mills two cards.

Counter target spell that targets a creature.

Counter target spell. You get an amount of {E} (energy counters) equal to its mana value.

Choose one — • Counter target multicolored spell. • Destroy target multicolored permanent.

Counter target spell. Its controller mills three cards.

Counter target spell with mana value 2.

Counter target spell and Suffocating Blast deals 3 damage to target creature.

Counter target spell. Ionize deals 2 damage to that spell's controller.

Counter target spell. You may cast a creature, instant, sorcery, or planeswalker spell from your graveyard with mana value less than or equal to that spell's mana value without paying its mana cost.

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next first main phase, add X mana in any combination of colors, where X is that spell's mana value.