After much thinking, Countertop in Landstill might be feasibly viable. It's a slower strategy and the lack of removal to fit the engine in is a drawback. The main reason why Countertop is bad in Landstill is the lack of 2cc spells to flip. You can potentially play 3 CB and 4 Spell Snare with 4 FOW and 3 Top. That is as far as I would go to squeeze it in. What would you cut? Countertop Landstill would be more focused on 3cc/1cc spells, and using Snares and EE to stop the 2cc spells from resolving. That would be my direction to Countertop Landstill
Feasbily vialble... I don't get why it's not standardized yet. I've had my deck designed for 4 months and just finally got the internet and still no one uses Counterbalance in Landstill.

12 2cc spells is a lack thereof? You don't run CB to blind flip people. You run a ton of other powerhouse stuff that you don't need that. Brainstorm becomes a Counterspell, and Top can lock out 2cc spells like Loam.

I see what the meta looks like, but you don't run Spell Snare alongside CB. You run either or; do you want the tempo of SN, or the power of CB? Choose one, not both.

I still feel like O Ring (or Vindicate if you run Black) is > EE. Just my opinion.

@ Rsaunder

You and me are pretty cool, we've had some long dicsussions before about decks. Let us be honest with eachother: your decklist is too spread out. You need to focus on something. So many non-4 of's. Lots of 2's and 3's, quite a bit of 1's. I've been an avid NON-Cunning Wish correspondant for a long time, and many will hate on me with this. Top is the direct replacement for card quality, and completely dominates it in all aspects, IMO. Top needs to be a 4-of in every Landstill list. After the tighten, after looking at good and bad matchups, after looking at possibilities... Counterbalance should be an obvious shoe-in.

I'm probably short-sighted and single-track-minded, but I've been raping everyone continuously with my list. I just wish at least a handful of people would try it and let me know the results.

Oh, and I just wanna toss the e-peen around real quick. Counterbalance was never dismissed from ITF, while ITF was considered a good deck (and I feel that it is). Has anyone ever seen their Counterbalance curve? It's similar or worse to 12/12 1cc/2cc. Wtf? I call shenanigans.