Mind Bend
- Mana cost
- {U}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- Ninth Edition #87 (rare)
- Price
- $1.02 USD
Change the text of target permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another or one basic land type with another. (For example, you may change "nonblack creature" to "nongreen creature" or "forestwalk" to "islandwalk." This effect lasts indefinitely.)
Mind Bend has 8 printings, first in Mirage (1996). EDHREC ranks it #15,643 among Commander cards. It appears most in Orvar, the All-Form decks (1,462 on EDHREC). It has 7 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run Mind Bend most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Orvar, the All-Form: 1,462 decks
- Blind Seer: 397 decks
- Dromar, the Banisher: 244 decks
- Llawan, Cephalid Empress: 139 decks
- Momir Vig, Simic Visionary: 133 decks
- Tam, Mindful First-Year: 82 decks
- Sol'kanar the Swamp King: 61 decks
- Treva, the Renewer: 25 decks
Often played with Mind Bend
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Alters all occurrences of the chosen word in the text box and the type line of the given card.
- : You can’t change proper nouns (i.e. card names) such as “Island Fish Jasconius”.
- : Can target a card with no appropriate words on it, or even one with no words at all.
- : It only changes what is printed on the card (or set on a token when it was created or set by a copy effect). It will not change any effects that are on the permanent.
- : It can be used to change a land’s type from one basic land type to another. For example, Forest can be changed to Island so it produces blue mana. It doesn’t change the name of any permanent.
- : You choose the words to change on resolution.
- : It can’t change a word to the same word. It must be a different word.