How to Rend Fiends and Immolate People: A Guide to Sorcery

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Subtle Spell should be Blue at the very least. With subtle spell you can't be counterspelled as the enemies have no clue what spell you are casting or that you are even casting spells.

So while it is niche, it has a lot of niche areas that it excels at.

Defeats silence, defeats mute (gagged etc...), defeats Being tied up, helps being sneaky, prevents counterspell, prevents others from knowing you are actively opposing them... Subtle Spell is fanfrickentastic.

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Here is Jeremy Crawford's response to Subtle Spell versus Counterspell.

http://www.sageadvice.eu/2015/10/30/...-counterspell/