Thats the kind of thing thats hard to beat
In the various three or more coloured versions of UG control decks I would always chose to play a Negate over an Actual Counterspell, those kinds of deck have an unrivalled ability to deal with permanents while coloured mana is more of an issue
Others might quietly become staples
7 Death's Shadow Death's Shadow is an iconic mono-black creature that has a powerful namesake deck within the Modern format
Key mechanics: Delve, graveyard matters, counters, discard, cost reduction, and recursion effects
Mega-Mega Cycles, on the other hand, have cycles that are completed in a completely different block to the one they started in, which means they can still happen (and do more often now that every set is considered its own block)