It definitely takes some work to transform it, and you cant count on always pulling it off, but because the front is already a nice card
You have to cast eight spells to be doing more damage than the life you gave
While youre cutting lands, replace Polluted Delta with a cheaper option like Fabled Passage
Splinter, Radical Rat Splinter, Radical Rat is going to be a new ninja support card like Silver-Fur Master (which was already inspired by Splinter)
While it's easy to imagine the situation where you've got a bunch of tokens and a sac outletsac outlet to draw a card during each player's turn, you're also going to have a lot of times where you don't have that and you're simply going to draw a single card off of combat or a High MarketHigh Market and then pass
However, most of the time these counters spells are worth it in the casual pods I play in, and so this counterspell makes the list