Misdirection
Instant
Mana cost: {3}{U}{U}
How we read this card
You may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost.
on-cast —
- makes exile a card
Change the target of target spell with a single target.
on-cast — changes what a spell or ability targets
Causes: exile a card.
Cares about: nothing.
Works well with
anything is exiled — 2,497 cards in the game can cause this (Misdirection is one).
- The War Doctor — When a permanent is exiled thanks to Misdirection, The War Doctor puts a time counter on itself
an instant is cast — 3,931 cards in the game can cause this (Misdirection is one).
When Misdirection is cast:
- Lunar Mystic — draws you 1 card
- Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time — grants rebound
- Repeated Reverberation — copies an ability
- Riku of Two Reflections — copies a spell
- Sword of Wealth and Power — copies a spell
- Lilah, Undefeated Slickshot — gets +1/+1
- Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy — brings a card back
- Harness the Storm — brings a card back
- In the Eye of Chaos — counters a spell
- Niblis of Frost — taps a creature an opponent controls
427 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.
anything is cast — 31,128 cards in the game can cause this (Misdirection is one).
When Misdirection is cast:
- Windrider Wizard — draws you 1 card
- Relic Amulet — puts a charge counter on itself
- Rockslide Sorcerer — deals 1 damage
- Umara Wizard // Umara Skyfalls — grants flying
- Alania, Divergent Storm — makes an opponent draw 1 card
- Umara Mystic — gets +2/+0
- Master of Winds — triggers
5 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.