Reverse the Sands

Sorcery

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

Legality

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

Discussion (48)

zelous666 on The Masochism Tango

4 months ago

I considered Angel's Trumpet before and dismissed it as too much of a drawback for my own side. Many of my creatures either can't attack or are only there for utility so they're too weak to attack. That leaves more of an uncontrollable pain point than I want if I want to be able to control where my life is. Same thing with Kothophed, Soul Hoarder. Great draw power, but it let's my opponent control my life instead of me and that's what I'm trying to avoid. Once I'm down to low life all they have to do is sacrifice a couple things to finish me off at instant speed, or attack with creatures they know will die. Nemesis Mask seems like it wouldn't get much use in the deck. It would be pointless on Teysa and the only creature I WOULD want to put it on would be Stuffy Doll. Other than that it would just be used as a lure to clear blockers when swinging with other creatures.

Hatred looks promising. I don't mind doing commander damage with Teysa, I just didn't want to sacrifice slots in the 99 to boost it. But this card synergizes well. Pretty expensive mana cost, so that limits being able to cast it with any other spells that would take advantage of the loss of life like Reverse the Sands, but being able to pay any amount of life at instant speed is gold in this deck. Top it off with a boost to unblockable commander damage and that's pretty strong.

ghostfire86 on

2 years ago

I’ve got two games in with this deck so far at my LGS. Already got some choice changes to make such as adding Reverse the Sands, and Mischievous Poltergeist.

Viscera Seer is a cut option to me.

I don’t plan to use enchantress draw package here.

Glacial Chasm also will be in here. The cumulative upkeep will deplete me while everything else protects me.

Wound Reflection is also on table as an option, but I’d prefer creature heavier effects. This means Archfiend of Despair is a viable addition, but I need to be careful of my mana curve when considering this.

griffstick on UW Sting

2 years ago

Soul Conduit

Mirror Universe

Axis of Mortality

Reverse the Sands

These all seem like they are solid ways to drain life in UW in my opinion.

TheoryCrafter on Why Are You Hitting Yourself

2 years ago

Have you considered Reverse the Sands? I think it will.go well with your deck. Happy Hunting!

Named_Tawyny on Reverse the Sands and Boon/Wound …

3 years ago

Yes. In your situation, you would gain 10 life, while your opponent loses 10 life when you cast Reverse the Sands.

From the rules "119.5. If an effect sets a player’s life total to a specific number, the player gains or loses the necessary amount of life to end up with the new total."

DemonDragonJ on Reverse the Sands and Boon/Wound …

3 years ago

In this scenario, one player has 20 life and another player has 10 life. The player with 10 life controls both Boon Reflection and Wound Reflection and then casts Reverse the Sands, giving themselves 20 life and the other player 10 life.

Is each player considered to have gained or lost life, in this scenario? Will the abilities of the enchantments work with redistributing the life totals?

TheRealSpecialK on Ah Ah Ah Ah Stayin' Alive!!!

3 years ago

Omniscience_is_life - Profane Transfusion has been an interesting card to try to slot in. When it came out, I was excited because it seems to be exactly what this deck is trying to do. But the more I looked at it, the more I realized that it is just too expensive. Consider the closest thing to it with Reverse the Sands. Reverse the Sands, at , is one mana less, and hits all players. That is such better value then what Profane Transfusion offers. This deck doesn't really care about having one big creature, so it's not like there is extra value in having that, (unless the fringe moments where you have out something like Temple of Aclazotz).

I thought about switching out a number of cards for Profane Transfusion, and each time it just felt like it was too expensive to justify the switch. In the case of Soul Conduit, having the ability to instant speed switch life totals on a stick seems of more value in the long game than the one-time Sorcery speed effect of Profane Transfusion - even if it ends up costing more in the long run.

mrdehring on From Dusk 'til Dawn

3 years ago

I like the lifegain/lifedrain aspects of this deck. But I think you are missing an important extort card in Crypt Ghast

With the up and down changes to your life total you may want to look at cards like Arguel's Blood Fast  ^Flip, Reverse the Sands, and Axis of Mortality

Mass removal and reanimation seems like a good sub theme, but where are your big heavy hitters to reanimate? Sepulchral Primordial seems like an auto include in this style of deck. Due to your creatures being more value engines than big hitters Single Combat might not be the wrath you want.