Reversal of Fortune
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Format Legality
1v1 Commander Legal
Archenemy Legal
Block Constructed Legal
Canadian Highlander Legal
Casual Legal
Commander / EDH Legal
Commander: Rule 0 Legal
Custom Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Highlander Legal
Legacy Legal
Leviathan Legal
Limited Legal
Modern Legal
Modern Beyond Horizons Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Planar Constructed Legal
Planechase Legal
Quest Magic Legal
Vanguard Legal
Vintage Legal

Reversal of Fortune

Sorcery

Target opponent reveals his or her hand. You may copy an instant or sorcery card in it. If you do, you may play the copy without paying its mana cost.

TheDaftWizard on Source of Casting a Copy …

1 year ago

Hi! I'm a rules advisor and was brought to this thread by a friend asking me about the interaction between Magar of the Magic Strings and Weathered Runestone. for the sake of brevity, "instant" here will mean either instant or sorcery. Here's what I wrote:

The defining issue of this debate is the fundamental difference in the framework of the game between a Card and an Object. (109.1) "An object is an ability on the stack, a card, a copy of a card, a token, a spell, a permanent, or an emblem." When a card moves zones, it (usually) becomes an entirely new object and loses all knowledge of its previous existence, and (most) effects attempting to refer to that object won't find it if it's no longer in that zone. Therefore, if an effect would both need to refer to information about an object and move that object into a new zone, the effect would necessitate the creation of a "Last Known Information" packet about the object. To be noted is that LKI and an object's Characteristics (as defined in 109.3) are two distinct concepts. LKI contains but is not limited to Characteristics, and Characteristics contains but is not limited to Copiable Values.

Magar's ability has you "note the name" of a target instant card in your graveyard, then has you move that card onto the battlefield face down as a creature. Because you targeted an object, moved that object, AND created an effect that would refer to that object, a LKI packet is created containing all possible information about the instant card in your graveyard. Because Runestone only cares if the object attempting to enter the battlefield is a "nonland permanent card, in a graveyard", it will have no issues with this because at all times in which the referred object is in the graveyard, it is an instant card.

The difference between Magar and Garth is that because Garth instructs you to "create a copy of a card defined by name rather than by indicating an object to be copied" (707.13), his CR entry needs to clarify what zone it is in which this new object is being created; in his case, outside the game. However, Magar instructs you to "use the [LKI packet of the object] in the graveyard to determine the copiable values of the copy" (707.14), and because 707.12 says that "An effect that instructs a player to cast a copy of an object (and not just copy a spell) follows the rules for casting spells, except that the copy is created in the same zone the object is in and then cast while another spell or ability is resolving," Magar's ability will need to create a copy of the referred object which, according to the LKI packet, is a card, with the Instant type, in a graveyard.

Therefore, when the ability given to the 3/3 creature triggers, and attempts to "create a copy of the card with the noted name", it would create a new object into your graveyard that contains the copiable values of the LKI packet, then would allow you to "cast the copy"; unfortunately, because of Weathered Runestone, players can't cast spells from graveyards, so the new object will be unable to be moved onto the stack, and will remain in your graveyard until state-based actions are checked and (707.10a) will cause that object to cease to exist.

TL;DR the copy of the instant/sorcery targeted by Magar will be a new object, initially created into your graveyard, then cast from your graveyard and moved to the stack.

Bonus Points: Spellweaver Volute also has you create a new object into your Graveyard; God-Eternal Kefnet instructs you to create a new object into your Library; and weirdest of all, Reversal of Fortune instructs you to create a new object into an opponent's Hand!

legendofa on Artwork Challenge - Design a …

2 years ago

If I see some fun art, I'll drop it in.

Further concern, it's probably safest to keep everything suitable for public audiences. Sure, Enthralling Victor and Reversal of Fortune have some skin, and Macabre Waltz and Victim of Night bring some gore, but I've seen some "specialty" sleeves and playmats that go a bit too far for my tastes in both categories, and there's plenty more beyond those. Obligatory "not a prude" and this community seems pretty good at self-piloting, but I'll be the boring one and ask that everything stays reasonably SFW.

Sorin_Markov_1947 on Hot Women Card Collection

3 years ago

Perilous Forays , Jaya Ballard, Task Mage , Realms Uncharted , Argothian Enchantress , Save Life , Reversal of Fortune , Essence Vortex .

You might also check out https://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/sexy-women-collection/, but there are 752 cards to look through and not a lot of them are any good.

RambIe on 5 color out of hand

3 years ago

food for thought
Stolen Strategy , Pako, Arcane Retriever , Haldan, Avid Arcanist , Reversal of Fortune , Mindclaw Shaman , Hedonist's Trove , Ghastly Conscription , Geth, Lord of the Vault , Etali, Primal Storm

Suns_Champion on Eldrazis Fhtagn

4 years ago

Cool deck, +1!

Suggestions:

  • Training Grounds / Heartstone to make her activation cost 1 mana, freeing up more mana to draw cards.
  • Ancient Tomb if your mana base can handle it, it's great ramp.
  • Avaricious Dragon seems interesting, because you can draw extra cards, suspend your whole hand, then have nothing to discard.
  • You might want some more ramp in general, seems pretty low, even with her cheating stuff out.

Cut Suggestions:

Good luck!

VladMarkov on [EDH] Eldrazis Floating over Battlefield

4 years ago

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Eldrazi R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

You can see them. They are somewhere there. Waiting in their sleep. And when they wake up - they will bring interplanar Chaos and destruction.

Prepare yourselves, though shall they spare no one.

Eldrazis Fhtagn

After finding Jhoira of the Ghitu , I was thinking what needs Suspend the most. Obvious answer - high mana cost cards. And what's more expensive, than Eldrazi? Hmm, I have no idea. And that's how the deck has been made. Few cards with "put on the battlefield", like Belbe's Portal or Quicksilver Amulet , few "without paying mana cost", like Omniscience , Sunbird's Invocation or Temporal Aperture and with enough mana rocks Planar Bridge or, of course Eye of Ugin .

Additionally, I like to play someone else's spells, so there is few stealing cards, like: Knowledge Exploitation or Reversal of Fortune .

I have spicied it up with some returning sorceries/instant cards, like Mystic Retrieval or Narset's Reversal .

Of course not to forget draw cards, but it's obvious in blue decks :)

And last and most important part - cards, that are taking off the time counters from suspended cards - imagine card:Omnisciense with Suspend 4 on turn 3 :) And then you have, for example Timecrafting and bang, t4 card:Omnisciense. And if not that, then maybe Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger ? And there is more removing time counters, like Clockspinning or Fury Charm or Timebender .

That do you think? Does the deck have a chance?

I am looking forward to see your feedback :)

Otakuacid on Taarna

4 years ago

Booby Trap What a thematically hilarious inclusion.

Reversal of Fortune Used as the thumbnail, yet not in the list... the card has great... "Assets" while also not being a terrible 99 inclusion.

I respect the decision not to include walkers, but should you change your mind: Nissa Revane (I recommend the original Zendikar printing of Nissa, so her breasts aren't censored as much as later printings)

choclo on The Stampe of the Cows

5 years ago

I am thinking about making another deck that focuses on using Minotaur shamans such as Oracle of Bones , then using Repeated Reverberation with various lightning-related spells. Another options could be Reverberate , Reversal of Fortune and Pyromancer Ascension .

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