If you cast a lightning bolt, and your opponents tries to counter it, can you redirect counterspell to target itself? [[deflection]] [[counterspell]] (Even if not, you can always …

Or, in other words, does exiling a spell (from the stack) counts as countering it? [[Lullmage Mentor]] [[Mindbreak Trap]]

Once, life was simple. UU would mean "counter target spell", pure and simple. Do you think Wizards should bring Counterspell?

Well, can it? I believe that when you play the creature, it's counted as a spell, and not yet as a blue-protected creature which you can't hit with blue spells. That's the reason …