1 – 20 of 31 cards where the text includes “change the target” or the text includes “change a target” or (the text includes “choose” and the text includes “new” and the text includes “target” and the text doesn’t contain “copy”)
Aethersnatch
{4}{U}{U}
Instant
Gain control of target spell. You may choose new targets for it. (If that spell becomes a permanent, it enters the battlefield under your control.)
“You were saying?”
Illustrated by Aaron Miller
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Not Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
Bolt Bend
{3}{R}
Instant
This spell costs {3} less to cast if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.
Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.
“Give them everything you’ve got … and some things you don’t.”
—Ral Zarek
Illustrated by Svetlin Velinov
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Historic
- Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
Captured by the Consulate
{3}{W}
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature you don’t control
Enchanted creature can’t attack.
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if it has a single target, change the target to enchanted creature if able.
“At last, the infamous Pia Nalaar.”
—Tezzeret
Watermark: Planeswalker
DailyMTG Story Spotlight
Illustrated by Tyler Jacobson
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
Commandeer
{5}{U}{U}
Instant
You may exile two blue cards from your hand rather than pay this spell’s mana cost.
Gain control of target noncreature spell. You may choose new targets for it. (If that spell is an artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker, the permanent enters the battlefield under your control.)
Illustrated by John Matson
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
Deflecting Swat
{2}{R}
Instant
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
You may choose new targets for target spell or ability.
Archmage attacks are little more than annoyances to Kalamax.
Illustrated by Izzy
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Not Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
Deflection
{3}{U}
Instant
Change the target of target spell with a single target.
The golden rule of revenge: Do unto others what they tried to do unto you.
Illustrated by Jeremy Jarvis
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
Divert
{U}
Instant
Change the target of target spell with a single target unless that spell’s controller pays {2}.
“What’s the fun of being a wizard if you can’t mess with people’s heads?”
Illustrated by Christopher Moeller
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Not Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
Emissary of Grudges
{5}{R}
Creature — Efreet
Flying, haste
As Emissary of Grudges enters the battlefield, secretly choose an opponent.
Reveal the player you chose: Choose new targets for target spell or ability if it’s controlled by the chosen player and if it targets you or a permanent you control. Activate only once.
Illustrated by Stanton Feng
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Not Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
Goblin Flectomancer
{U}{R}{R}
Creature — Goblin Wizard
Sacrifice Goblin Flectomancer: You may change the targets of target instant or sorcery spell.
Rerouting magic through a goblin’s brain is the surest way to throw it wildly off course.
Watermark: Izzet
Illustrated by Matt Cavotta
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
Imp's Mischief
{1}{B}
Instant
Change the target of target spell with a single target. You lose life equal to that spell’s mana value.
“Do the innocent pay for the crimes of the guilty? Of course they do. That’s the fate of the weak.”
—Nicol Bolas
Illustrated by Thomas M. Baxa
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
I'm Rubber, You're Glue
{W}{W}
Enchantment
When you speak in non-rhyming sentences, sacrifice I’m Rubber, You’re Glue.
Say “I’m rubber, you’re glue. Everything bounces off me and sticks to you”: Change the target of target spell or ability that targets only you.
Illustrated by Claymore J. Flapdoodle
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Not Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Not Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Not Legal
- Commander
- Not Legal
Lightning Storm
{1}{R}{R}
Instant
Lightning Storm deals X damage to any target, where X is 3 plus the number of charge counters on Lightning Storm.
Discard a land card: Put two charge counters on Lightning Storm. You may choose a new target for it. Any player may activate this ability but only if Lightning Storm is on the stack.
Illustrated by Luca Zontini
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
Misdirection
{3}{U}{U}
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.
Illustrated by Mathias Kollros
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Not Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
Mizzium Meddler
{2}{U}
Creature — Vedalken Wizard
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
When Mizzium Meddler enters the battlefield, you may change a target of target spell or ability to Mizzium Meddler.
Energy surges in Izzet labs are opportunities for experimentation.
Illustrated by Johann Bodin
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
Muck Drubb
{3}{B}{B}
Creature — Beast
Flash
When Muck Drubb enters the battlefield, change the target of target spell that targets only a single creature to Muck Drubb.
Madness {2}{B} (If you discard this card, discard it into exile. When you do, cast it for its madness cost or put it into your graveyard.)
Illustrated by Jim Nelson
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
Perplexing Chimera
{4}{U}
Enchantment Creature — Chimera
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may exchange control of Perplexing Chimera and that spell. If you do, you may choose new targets for the spell. (If the spell becomes a permanent, you control that permanent.)
Illustrated by Tyler Jacobson
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
Psychic Battle
{3}{U}{U}
Enchantment
Whenever a player chooses one or more targets, each player reveals the top card of their library. The player who reveals the card with the highest mana value may change the target or targets. If two or more cards are tied for highest, the target or targets remain unchanged. Changing targets this way doesn’t trigger abilities of permanents named Psychic Battle.
Illustrated by Ray Lago
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Not Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
Rebound
{1}{U}
Instant
Change the target of target spell that targets only a player. The new target must be a player.
Insult, like an arrow, is beyond control once loosed.
Illustrated by Doug Chaffee
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Not Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
Redirect
{U}{U}
Instant
You may choose new targets for target spell.
“It’s actually quite simple, but since you’ve only recently begun to walk upright, it may take some time to explain.”
—Jace Beleren, to Garruk Wildspeaker
Illustrated by Izzy
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Penny
- Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
Reflecting Mirror
{4}
Artifact
{X}, {T}: Change the target of target spell with a single target if that target is you. The new target must be a player. X is twice the mana value of that spell.
Illustrated by Mark Poole
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Not Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal