In my original article, I wrote: Counterspell is a strong, appropriate answer to a format that revolves around a wide variety of cheap threats. And it is
many of these cards were handled and played with, causing tiny surface scratches, bent edges and other types of damage to the card that would devalue it
Through this ability, you can continuously buff up Rex with all sorts of abilities while at the same time permanently removing problematic cards from your opponents graveyard
It is at least a mana more than the other good ones and also requires you to have a creature in play to use
And yet, by giving control players the chance to lay-away their counterspell on turn two, Saw It Coming has proven its worth even in a Standard format quite hostile to countermagic
You can see the same clear seals on the side of the booster boxes from the next set