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"Find me cards equivalent to: Untimely Malfunction"

Equivalent cards to Untimely Malfunction in red (R) instant spells, offering similar flexibility:

  • Abrade – Instant: Choose one — Deal 3 damage to target creature; or destroy target artifact.
  • Deflecting Swat – Instant: You may choose new targets for target spell or ability.
  • Roil Eruption (less modal, but deals damage or can hit creatures/players).
  • Seismic Shift – Can make lands unable to block, but not creatures.
  • Mizzium Mortars – Damage to creatures (roughly similar to some modes).

Closest match: Abrade, Deflecting Swat, and Untimely Malfunction (yours) as they fit type, color, and offer modal/target-changing control.


Reason: Very few red instants combine all these specific modes, but these cards offer 1–2 of the effects you listed.

Found Cards

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Abrade

Deflecting Swat

Mizzium Mortars

Roil Eruption

Seismic Shift

Untimely Malfunction

Abrade #37 Instant

Variations: v1 v2 v3
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Rarity: Uncommon
Converted Cost: 2
Power/Toughness: /
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  • Instant
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    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardmarket 0.15 EUR / 0.54 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.49 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.3 USD / 0.48 USD
    Manapool / 0.15 USD 0.15 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Choose one — • Abrade deals 3 damage to target creature. •Destroytarget artifact.

    Deflecting Swat #311 Instant

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Instant
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    Normal
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    Rules

  • If the target spell has a variable number of targets, you can't change how many targets it has.
  • If the target spell has damage divided as it was cast (like Mythos of Vadrok), the division can't be changed although the targets receiving that damage still can. The same is true of spells that distribute counters.
  • If you choose new targets for the target spell, the new targets must be legal.

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    Cardmarket 54.76 EUR
    Manapool 80.75 USD
    Cardkingdom 89.99 USD
    Tcgplayer 76.33 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. You may choose new targets for target spell or ability.

    Mizzium Mortars #2249 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 2
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  • Sorcery
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Overload

    Rules

  • Because a spell with overload doesn't target when its overload cost is paid, it may affect permanents with hexproof or with protection from the appropriate color.
  • If you are instructed to cast a spell with overload "without paying its mana cost," you can't choose to pay its overload cost instead.
  • If you don't pay the overload cost of a spell with overload, that spell will have a single target. If you pay the overload cost, the spell won't have any targets.
  • Note that if the spell with overload is dealing damage, protection from that spell's color will still prevent that damage.
  • To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying (such as an overload cost), add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.

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    Legalities

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

    Text

    Mizzium Mortars deals 4 damage to target creature you don't control. Overload (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

    Roil Eruption #155 Sorcery

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Sorcery
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    Normal
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Kicker

    Rules

  • If a card or token enters as a copy of a permanent, the new permanent isn't kicked, even if the original was.
  • If a spell's kicker cost was paid, the spell is "kicked."
  • If you copy a kicked spell on the stack, the copy is also kicked. If the copied spell is a permanent spell, the token the copy of that spell becomes when it enters is also kicked.
  • If you put a permanent with a kicker ability onto the battlefield without casting it, you can't kick it.
  • The kicker ability doesn't let you pay a kicker cost more than once.
  • To determine a spell's total cost, start with the mana cost (or an alternative cost if another card's effect allows you to pay one instead), add any cost increases (such as kicker), then apply any cost reductions. The spell's mana value remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.

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    Seller Price
    Cardmarket 0.07 EUR / 0.12 EUR
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD / 0.49 USD
    Manapool / 0.15 USD 0.15 USD
    Tcgplayer / 0.1 USD 0.16 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Kicker (You may pay an additional as you cast this spell.) Roil Eruption deals 3 damage to any target. If this spell was kicked, it deals 5 damage instead.

    Seismic Shift #141 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 4
    Power/Toughness: /
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  • Sorcery
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    Normal
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    Seller Price
    Cardkingdom / 0.49 USD 0.35 USD
    Manapool / 0.15 USD 0.15 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.07 USD / 0.23 USD
    Cardmarket / 0.16 EUR 0.08 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Destroy target land. Up to two target creatures can't block this turn.

    Untimely Malfunction #161 Instant

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    Info

    Color:
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    Cost:
    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: /
    Types:
  • Instant
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    Layout:
    Normal
    Rank:
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    Rules

  • If a spell or ability targets multiple things, you can't target it with Untimely Malfunction's second mode, even if all but one of those targets have become illegal.
  • The effect of Untimely Malfunction's last mode won't cause creatures that are already blocking to stop blocking.
  • You don't choose the new target for the spell or ability targeted with Untimely Malfunction's second mode until Untimely Malfunction resolves. You must change the target if possible. However, you can't change the target to an illegal target. If there are no legal targets to choose from, the target isn't changed. It doesn't matter if the original target has somehow become illegal itself.

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    Cardmarket / 6.5 EUR 5.22 EUR
    Tcgplayer 7.25 USD / 7.61 USD
    Cardkingdom / 12.99 USD 10.99 USD
    Manapool / 6.51 USD 6.24 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Choose one — •Destroytarget artifact. • Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target. • One or two target creatures can't block this turn.