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Equivalent cards to Reverse the Sands (white, life manipulation):
1. Redistribution – Redistributes life totals among all players (albeit differently).
2. Sorin Markov – His -3 ability sets a player's life total to
10. 3. Magister Sphinx – Sets a player's life total to
10. 4. Axis of Mortality – Swaps life totals between two players each turn.

Each manipulates or equalizes life totals in some way.

Results:

Axis of Mortality #3s Enchantment

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Rarity: Mythic
Converted Cost: 6
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  • Enchantment
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    Rules

  • If a player can’t gain life, that player can’t exchange life totals with a player with a higher life total. If a player can’t lose life, that player can’t exchange life totals with a player with a lower life total. In either of these cases, neither player’s life total will change.
  • If one of the targeted players is an illegal target when the triggered ability of Axis of Mortality tries to resolve, the exchange won’t happen. Neither player’s life total will change.
  • In a Two-Headed Giant game, each player is considered to have the same life total as their team. If the two targeted players are on different teams, those players gain or lose the appropriate amount of life so that the teams end up exchanging life totals. If the two targeted players are teammates, they can’t exchange life totals.
  • When the life totals are exchanged, each player gains or loses the amount of life necessary to equal the other player’s previous life total. For example, if player A has 5 life and player B has 3 life before the exchange, player A will lose 2 life and player B will gain 2 life. Replacement effects may modify these gains and losses, and triggered abilities may trigger on them.
  • Prices

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    Tcgplayer 4.79 USD
    Cardmarket 2.28 EUR
    Cardkingdom 5.49 USD
    Manapool 0.92 USD 3.23 USD 12.49 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    At the beginning of your upkeep, you may have two target players exchange life totals.

    Magister Sphinx #247 Artifact Creature — Sphinx

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 7
    Power/Toughness: 5/5
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  • Creature
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  • Sphinx
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Flying

    Rules

  • For a player's life total to become 10, what actually happens is that the player gains or loses the appropriate amount of life. For example, if the targeted player's life total is 4 when this ability resolves, it will cause that player to gain 6 life; alternately, if the targeted player's life total is 17 when this ability resolves, it will cause that player to lose 7 life. Other cards that interact with life gain or life loss will interact with this effect accordingly.
  • This ability is not optional.
  • In a Two-Headed Giant game, this ability basically causes the team's life total to become 10, but only the targeted player is considered to have actually gained or lost life.
  • Prices

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    Tcgplayer 0.69 USD / 0.65 USD
    Cardmarket 0.42 EUR / 0.79 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.99 USD / 0.99 USD
    Cardsphere 0.43 USD
    Manapool 0.92 USD 3.23 USD 12.49 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    Flying When this creature enters, target player's life total becomes 10.

    Reverse the Sands #75 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 8
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  • Sorcery
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    Rules

  • You can’t split up a life total when you redistribute it. For example, suppose that in a two-player game your life total is 5 and your opponent’s life total is 15 when Reverse the Sands starts to resolve. You can choose to (a) leave the life totals as they are or (b) make your life total 15 and your opponent’s 5. You can’t choose to make your life total 20 and your opponent’s 0.
  • You choose which player gets which life total when the spell resolves.
  • Prices

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    Tcgplayer 0.45 USD
    Cardmarket 0.32 EUR
    Cardsphere 0.6 USD
    Manapool 0.92 USD 3.23 USD 12.49 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    Redistribute any number of players' life totals. (Each of those players gets one life total back.)

    Sorin Markov #1698 Legendary Planeswalker — Sorin

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    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 6
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  • Planeswalker
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  • Sorin
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    Rules

  • For a player’s life total to become 10, what actually happens is that the player gains or loses the appropriate amount of life. For example, if the targeted opponent’s life total is 4 when this ability resolves, it will cause that player to gain 6 life; alternately, if the targeted player’s life total is 17 when this ability resolves, it will cause that player to lose 7 life. Other cards that interact with life gain or life loss will interact with this effect accordingly.
  • If the player affected by Sorin’s third ability skips their next turn, the ability will wait. You’ll control the next turn the affected player actually takes.
  • If the targeted permanent or player is an illegal target by the time Sorin’s first ability resolves, the entire ability doesn’t resolve. You won’t gain life.
  • Multiple player-controlling effects that affect the same player overwrite each other. The last one to be created is the one that works.
  • Sorin’s third ability allows you to control another player. This effect applies to the next turn that the affected player actually takes.
  • The player who is being controlled is still the active player.
  • While controlling another player, you also continue to make your own choices and decisions.
  • While controlling another player, you make all choices and decisions that player is allowed to make or is told to make during that turn. For example: -- You choose which lands the other player plays. -- You choose which spells the other player casts, and make all decisions as those spells are cast and as they resolve. For example, you choose the value of X for that player's Earthquake, the target for that player's Lightning Bolt, what mana that player spends to cast Day of Judgment, and what card that player gets with Diabolic Tutor. -- You choose which activated abilities the other player activates, and make all decisions as those abilities are activated and as they resolve. For example, you can have your opponent sacrifice their creatures to their Vampire Aristocrat or have your opponent's Caller of Gales give one of your creatures flying. -- You make all decisions for the other player's triggered abilities, including what they target and any decisions made when they resolve. -- You choose which creatures controlled by the other player attack, who or what they attack, and how they assign their combat damage. -- You make any choices and decisions that player would make for any other reason. For example, you could cast Fact or Fiction, choose that player to divide the revealed cards into piles, and thus divide those cards into piles yourself.
  • You can use only the affected player’s resources (cards, mana, and so on) to pay costs for that player; you can’t use your own. Similarly, you can use the affected player’s resources only to pay that player’s costs; you can’t spend them on your costs.
  • You can’t make any illegal decisions or illegal choices — you can’t do anything that player couldn’t do. You can’t make choices or decisions for that player that aren’t called for by the game rules or by any cards, permanents, spells, abilities, and so on. If an effect causes another player to make decisions that the affected player would normally make (such as Master Warcraft does), that effect takes precedence. (In other words, if the affected player wouldn’t make a decision, you wouldn’t make that decision on their behalf.) You also can’t make any choices or decisions for the player that would be called for by the tournament rules (such as whether to take an intentional draw or whether to call a judge).
  • You can’t make the affected player concede. That player may choose to concede at any time, even while you’re controlling their turn.
  • You could gain control of yourself using Sorin’s third ability, but unless you do so to overwrite someone else’s player-controlling effect, this doesn’t do anything.
  • You only control the player. You don’t control any of the other player’s permanents, spells, or abilities.
  • In a Two-Headed Giant game, Sorin’s second ability causes the targeted opponent’s team’s life total to become 10. Only the targeted player is actually considered to have actually gained or lost life.
  • Controlling a player doesn’t allow you to look at that player’s sideboard. If an effect instructs that player to choose a card from outside the game, you can’t have that player choose any card.
  • While controlling another player, you can see all cards in the game that player can see. This includes cards in that player’s hand, face-down cards that player controls, and any cards in that player’s library the player may look at.
  • Prices

    Seller Price
    Tcgplayer 13.88 USD
    Cardmarket 9.78 EUR / 10.36 EUR
    Cardkingdom 16.99 USD / 14.99 USD
    Cardsphere 12.69 USD
    Manapool 0.92 USD 3.23 USD 12.49 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    +2 Sorin Markov deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.
    −3 Target opponent's life total becomes 10.
    −7 You control target player during that player's next turn.

    Axis of Mortality Enchantment Normal - ~$4.87

    Magister Sphinx Artifact Creature — Sphinx Normal - ~$2.16

    Reverse the Sands Sorcery Normal - ~$3

    Sorin Markov Legendary Planeswalker — Sorin Normal - ~$10.59

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