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Portal Manipulator

Creature — Human Wizard2 generic manaWhite or Blue manaWhite or Blue mana

There is a narrow, gleeful window this creature was built to exploit: the declare attackers step, after your opponent has committed the crew but before damage is dealt. Flash a 3/2 in during that pause and you redirect their attackers wherever you like, most cruelly at another opponent, so a swing meant for you becomes a swing meant for the player across the table. The design leans on a redirection template that has quietly existed for years (effects that change a creature's attack target mid-combat), but folding it onto a flash body turns a reactive trick into a deployable threat that also reroutes the whole assault. The timing constraint is the entire cost of the effect: it does nothing outside that single step, and it does nothing if no attackers are declared, so this is a card you hold mana behind and fire on a read of the board rather than jam on your own turn. The hybrid pips keep it available to any deck that touches white or blue, which matters for a card whose ceiling is entirely political: the value it generates is measured in the goodwill you spend and the grudges you redirect, not in the 3/2 body that eventually trades away.

Portal Manipulator (clu)
CLU · #40uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $1.79
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flash When this creature enters during the declare attackers step, choose target player and any number of target attacking creatures their opponents control. Those creatures are now attacking that player.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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