They are "slower" in the sense that they use up mana on your own turn so that you have less mana open for countering spells on your opponents' turns
One common line involves looping Wheel of Fortune with mana generators like Jeskas Will , repeatedly refilling your hand while producing the mana needed to keep escaping spells
Riverchurn Monument is the kind of mill card that scares me, because it tends to combo with a bunch of mill favorites like Bruvac, Phenax, God of Deception, and ways to make players mill a lot of cards (Maddening Cacophony, anyone?)
Removal Theres a lot of overlap between counterspells and removal, and you could almost call counters pre-removal. Much like single-target removal spells, counterspells usually deal with opposing cards on a one-for-one basis
When the sport blew up in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the adults I looked up to in my community derided it as a bunch of cars driving around in a circle for three hours
This product does not contain a Golden Chocobo card (available in EN Collector Boosters only