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Pact of Negation is unlike most other counterspells in that it is one that you only really play to force other things through

If that player or that planeswalkers controller would gain life this turn, that player gains no life instead

It's also great for commander recursion, though it would give me a stomachache to send my commander to the graveyard and then try to trigger this

They're not heavily thematic, offering just a rare card or two per deck, and including mostly basic cards with simple interactions

Once enough quest counters accumulate, it copies those triggers, which allows effects like pump abilities or life drain abilities to scale rapidly