Counter Spell

Yessss!
A particular ginger friend of mine uses this card on me, all the time.

I probably lose because i'm too aggressive and would rather pay the health cost than the mana cost. Now there is finally a card that will slightly nullify it without having to rely on disenchanting it.

For more information on strategies on this kind of card go to the Daily MTG article.

This next article talks alot how a strength of blue mages is to counter spells. This card below is another strategy of theirs:

Card Advantage.
I'm not too fond of cards like this that lets me draw/pick cards... maybe if I get alot of these, coupled with some Ponders, i'll give it a try.