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Reverse the Sands

Sorcery6 generic manaWhite manaWhite mana

Most life-altering effects move a number in one direction: you gain, you lose, an opponent pays. This one picks up every chosen player's life total and deals them back out as it pleases. The function is closer to a redistribution puzzle than a damage spell, and the puzzle is the point. In a two-player game the obvious line is to hand the opponent your lowest total and keep their highest for yourself, an effect that can flip a game state in a single resolution without dealing a point of damage or touching the board. The same line generalizes to a table: every player's life pool becomes a single resource the caster gets to reassign, and the more totals there are to juggle, the wider the swing. The friction is the price and the speed: eight mana at sorcery timing means you are committing your turn to a math problem rather than answering a threat, and the swing only matters if the totals are far enough apart to be worth redistributing. It is a finisher disguised as a non-damage spell, the rare white card that wins by arithmetic rather than by going wide or going over the top.

Reverse the Sands (chk)
CHK · #41rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.91
Foil: $11.09
Oracle Text

Rules text

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

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
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
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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