#countermagic

New moon tomorrow means prep work tonight to create a witch's bottle.

2025 has started off on the wrong foot for me and aside from the mundane efforts I'm taking to try to change that, I think it's time I back it up with some magical efforts as well.

Recycled bottle - containment, taglock vessel

Taglocks - hair from both my partner and I, physical representation

Black candle - protection, concealment

Tangled threads - distraction, ensnarement

Flying devils oil - repellent, banishment

Lemon vinegar - acidity, cleansing

Rusted pins - harm, discomfort

Rusted iron church nails (salvaged from the building after an arson) - protection, decay

Broken blades - pain, cutting ties

Thorns - torment, protection

Iron oxide ash (from the same church as the nails) - protection, banishment

NEW IN THE PORTLAND BUTTON WORKS SHOP

21 - NOVEMBER 2021

Hex Twisting - Countermagick Spells for the Irritated Witch by Diana Rajchel

Weird Walk Issue Number 5

Skeletor's Guide to Surviving the Holidays from Eternia Press

First, let’s just clear up some language.

There’s no such thing as “black” magic, and using the terms white and black to describe helpful and baneful magic has racist overtones, aside from the the fact that magic isn’t black or white because morality doesn’t work that way. (No one’s accusing anyone of racism, but “black magic” is an unfortunate turn of phrase that needs to be phased out of pagan language.)

Well, yes and no. It’s very easy to get confused about the difference between casting a card as a spell and, say, discarding it to use an ability like Bloodrush or Cycling. The former can be countered by Dissipate. The latter can’t (because it’s an activated ability, not a spell).

I suspect the source of people’s confusion is probably an issue like this.

No. Countering a spell means putting the spell card into its owner’s graveyard, unless an effect specifically puts it somewhere else (like Remand).