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"Find me cards equivalent to: Swerve"

Similar cards to Swerve (instant, red-blue, changes target of spell):

  • Fumble (Instant, blue, returns an Aura to hand, changes target—only vs. Auras or Equipment)
  • Tibalt's Trickery (Instant, red, counters a spell then randomizes a replacement—not exactly swapping target)
  • Misdirection (Instant, blue, changes target—does not fit Izzet exactly, but similar effect)

Closest is Misdirection (mono-blue), but within Izzet colors, Swerve is unique. No direct equivalents in R/U.


Reason: Target-changing effects are rare, especially in red-blue.

Found Cards

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Fumble

Misdirection

Swerve

Tibalt's Trickery

Fumble #34 Instant

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Rarity: Uncommon
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    Rules

  • Fumble doesn’t target the creature that it attaches Auras and Equipment to. You can attach Auras and Equipment to creatures you can’t target, such as an opponent’s creature with hexproof.
  • The Auras and Equipment must be attached to a creature if possible, even if the only creature they can all be attached to is an opponent’s creature.
  • The Auras and Equipment that you gain control of must all be attached to one creature that they can all legally be attached to. If they can’t all legally be attached to one creature, they all remain on the battlefield unattached (and Auras among them will be put into their owners’ graveyards).

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Manapool / 6.51 USD 0.31 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.99 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.53 USD / 6.62 USD
    Cardmarket / 2.76 EUR 0.71 EUR

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Return target creature to its owner's hand. Gain control of all Auras and Equipment that were attached to it, then attach them to another creature.

    Misdirection #1272 Instant

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 5
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    Rules

  • If there is no other legal target for the spell, this does not change the target.
  • Once the spell resolves, the new target is considered to be targeted by the deflected spell. This will trigger any effects which trigger on being targeted.
  • The target of a spell that targets another spell on the stack can be changed to any other spell on the stack, even if the new target will resolve before the spell does.
  • This does not check if the current target is legal. It just checks if the spell has a single target.
  • This only targets the spell being changed, not the original or new target of the spell it is affecting.
  • You can choose to make a spell on the stack target this spell (if such a target choice would be legal had the spell been cast while this spell was on the stack). The new target for the deflected spell is not chosen until this spell resolves. This spell is still on the stack when new targets are selected for the spell.
  • You can’t make a spell which is on the stack target itself.
  • You choose the spell to target on announcement, but you pick the new target for that spell on resolution.

    • Prices

    Seller Price
    Cardmarket 81.37 EUR
    Tcgplayer 77.89 USD
    Cardkingdom 84.99 USD
    Manapool 73.76 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    You may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Change the target of target spell with a single target.

    Swerve #200 Instant

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    Rarity: Uncommon
    Converted Cost: 2
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    Rules

  • If a spell targets multiple things, you can't target it with Swerve, even if all but one of those targets has become illegal.
  • If a spell targets the same player or object multiple times, you can't target it with Swerve.
  • If you cast Swerve on a spell that targets a spell on the stack (like Cancel does, for example), you can't change that spell's target to itself. You can, however, change that spell's target to Swerve. If you do, that spell won't resolve when it tries to resolve because Swerve will have left the stack by then.
  • Swerve targets only the spell whose target will be changed. It doesn't directly affect the original target of that spell or the new target of that spell.
  • You don't choose the new target for the spell until Swerve 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, the target isn't changed. It doesn't matter if the original target of that spell has somehow become illegal.
  • An Aura spell on the stack targets the object or player which it will enchant upon entering. Thus, an Aura spell is a "spell with a single target", which means you may use Swerve to change that target. Doing so will cause it to enter enchanting the new target rather than the original one.

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    Cardkingdom / 3.49 USD 0.49 USD
    Tcgplayer / 1.44 USD 0.41 USD
    Cardmarket 0.29 EUR / 0.76 EUR
    Manapool / 0.96 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

    Change the target of target spell with a single target.

    Tibalt's Trickery #7027 Instant

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 2
    Power/Toughness: /
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    Abilities/Keywords

    Mill

    Rules

  • If a player casts a spell "without paying its mana cost," they can't choose to cast it for any alternative costs. They can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the card has any mandatory additional costs, those must be paid to cast the spell.
  • If the spell has {X} in its mana cost, they must choose 0 as the value of X.
  • If the spell that's countered was the back face of a modal double-faced card, no card in the player's library will have the same name as that spell because those cards all use only their front-face characteristics while in the library; however, if the first card the player exiles that has a different name than the spell is a modal double-faced card, they may cast either face, even if the back face has the same name as the countered spell.
  • If there aren't any nonland cards in that library with a different name than the countered spell, the player will exile all cards from their library, revealing all of them, and then they'll put those cards on the bottom of their library in a random order.
  • Tibalt's Trickery can target a spell that can't be countered. If Tibalt's Trickery resolves, the target spell won't be countered, but all of the other effects will still happen.

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    Cardkingdom 23.99 USD / 20.99 USD
    Cardmarket / 13.15 EUR 13.42 EUR
    Manapool / 16.28 USD 16.29 USD
    Tcgplayer 14.69 USD

    Legalities

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

    Text

    Counter target spell. Choose 1, 2, or 3 at random. Its controller mills that many cards, then exiles cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card with a different name than that spell. They may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Then they put the exiled cards on the bottom of their library in a random order.