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Misdirection
RareColour IDMV 5
Instant
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.
Card capabilities
Instant
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Primary formats
Eternal formats
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Other printings
6 other English printingsEarliest 1999-10-04Newest 2019-11-07Cheapest priced $5.96 in WC01
Rulings (8)
wotc4 Oct 2004
If there is no other legal target for the spell, this does not change the target.
wotc4 Oct 2004
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.
wotc4 Oct 2004
You choose the spell to target on announcement, but you pick the new target for that spell on resolution.
wotc4 Oct 2004
You can’t make a spell which is on the stack target itself.
wotc4 Oct 2004
This only targets the spell being changed, not the original or new target of the spell it is affecting.
wotc4 Oct 2004
This does not check if the current target is legal. It just checks if the spell has a single target.
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