Brine Seer

Tax counterspells that scale with your own resources have always lived in tension with their cost, and this one resolves that tension by spending the worst currency it could: it makes you reveal the very blue cards you would rather be casting. The activation isn't cheap either, asking for a tap plus mana before you ever turn a card face-up, so a turn spent firing it off is a turn the rest of your hand sits exposed and inert. That self-imposed friction is the whole design: the more pressure you can put on an opponent's spell, the more of your own plan you've splayed across the table for everyone to see. It belongs to the lineage of soft counters that ask the opponent to pay rather than flatly forbidding, but where most of those keep the surcharge fixed and the caster's hand private, this one trades certainty for information leakage. A repeatable counter on a body is genuinely rare for the era, yet the body is the most fragile thing in the game and the ability is loud enough to telegraph its own weakness. The card reads as an early, honest attempt to price a recurring tax effect: give blue a permanent that can keep saying no, then make the saying expensive enough, in mana, in tempo, and in hidden information, that it never gets to do so for free.