Shifting Loyalties

Sorcery

Exchange control of two target permanents that share a card type. (Artifact, creature, enchantment, land, and planeswalker are card types.)

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (11)

Exoflo on Zedruu budget

2 years ago

Hi HandsomeCowboy !

This is one of the most qualitative budget Zedruu deck I ever see. Many cards are good, even excellent. I think Shifting Loyalties are really too expensive, and maybe Switcheroo too.

Good budget cards I can recommend you are :

• Teferi's Ageless Insight
• Surveyor's Scope
• Perplexing Chimera

And for 2$ more:

• Tragic Arrogance
• Gift of Immortality
• Ghost Quarter
• Austere Command
• Wild Research

Wild Research is my favorite card, it just allow you to access to 1/3 of your deck So, whatever your deck is just very effective for a budget deck, I am really impressed

Best of luck to you and spray joy with our MotherGoat

CharonSquared on Pattern Recognition #137 - The …

4 years ago

"The exchange of the control of two permanents is something that that colour can do at Rare and higher"

Not that this is relevant to the main point of the article, but blue can exchange permanents at uncommon as well: Switcheroo , Eyes Everywhere , Vedalken Plotter , Shrewd Negotiation , Shifting Loyalties , Legerdemain , and Shifting Borders .

ndite on The Ultimate Christmas Way to Troll EVERYONE

7 years ago

I'm confused on how you give your opponents the boxes with Cultural Exchange as they are not all creatures? Do you mean to use Shifting Loyalties? Other than that I absolutely love your combo decks.

Groovelord on Kasimir Exchange

7 years ago

There's lots in blue. Switcheroo, Legerdemain, Shifting Loyalties, Chromeshell Crab, Cultural Exchange, Djinn of Infinite Deceits, Juxtapose and Spawnbroker all do what you want to do, though I guess Spawnbroker, the crab and the djinn all break with the "no creatures with abilities" restriction.

White doesn't have anything besides quirky gain-control effects, like Preacher, Evangelize, Debt of Loyalty and Jabari's Influence, but they don't switch.

DroseraC on

8 years ago

IcyFire81: My experience (as a noob who only got this deck from here) is that it will suffer the most from losing Monastery Siege. Shifting Loyalties isn't a huge deal, because you have other ways to win - but you don't have any other ways to dig.

Still, Innistrad had some decent enchantments the first time around so maybe some support will come in that set and Monastery Siege can be substituted.

IcyFire81 on

8 years ago

I see that a lot of this deck will still be standard legal when Shadows drops in a few months. Any ideas on what you'll be taking out or replacing prior to that? Or is it going to disappear completely due to Shifting Loyalties being gone?

Nebulocity on

8 years ago

This is my 5-color Bring to Light deck that I made last year (November 2015), featuring the Shifting Loyalties + Demonic Pact combo. It's pretty hilarious when the only reaction people have is "that's gay" ;-) The fun starts at 1:35

Rhadamanthus on Shifting Loyalties - Frost Walker

8 years ago

Use double square brackets to link cards. It helps the readers because they don't have to spend time looking everything up, and it helps you because you don't have to spend time explaining everything.

You're right to think that Frost Walker will die after getting targeted by Shifting Loyalties. The rules about "exchanges" say that if the entire exchange can't be completed (usually because one of the objects is missing or otherwise illegal) then none of the exchange happens. You won't exchange anything in your example.