By hiding your counter in the exile zone, you are almost assured it will be available when you need to shoot a spell down
Fear of Impostors A clean, hard counterspell with the drawback of giving your opponent a 2/2 is OK, but where I see the value in Fear of Impostors is the relevant flash ability, and enchantment card type
Truss's last ability affects a single number or number word on the spell or permanent
Though simple, its elegant in how it gives you value without being utterly broken
Its in this space these Magic illustrations seek to mimic and the Mystical Archive serves that same function, to illustrate a narrative of some of the most important spells in Magics history
This made them illegal marked cards, which caused judges to make some hilariously janky proxies to replace the real cards that were kind of somehow illegal to play