Change of Plans
- Mana cost
- {X}{1}{U}
- Type
- Instant
- Set
- New Capenna Commander #125 (rare)
- Price
- $16.12 USD
Each of X target creatures you control connive. You may have any number of them phase out. (To have a creature connive, draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature. Treat phased-out permanents and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until their controller's next turn.)
Change of Plans has 3 printings, first in New Capenna Commander (2022). EDHREC ranks it #7,087 among Commander cards. It appears most in Hinata, Dawn-Crowned decks (1,731 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run Change of Plans
- Obscura Operation - New Capenna Commander, led by Kamiz, Obscura Oculus
Commanders that run Change of Plans most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Hinata, Dawn-Crowned: 1,731 decks
- Zimone, Infinite Analyst: 1,511 decks
- Kamiz, Obscura Oculus: 1,346 decks
- Doctor Doom, King of Latveria: 1,078 decks
- Raffine, Scheming Seer: 756 decks
- Magnus the Red: 561 decks
- The Watcher in the Water: 449 decks
- Toluz, Clever Conductor: 213 decks
Often played with Change of Plans
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : If a resolving spell or ability instructs a specific creature to connive but that creature has left the battlefield, the creature still connives. If you discard a nonland card this way, you won't put a +1/+1 counter on anything. Abilities that trigger “when [that creature] connives” will trigger.
- : Once an ability that causes a creature to connive begins to resolve, no player may take any other actions until it's done. Notably, opponents can't try to remove the conniving creature after you discard a nonland card but before it receives a counter.
- : If multiple creatures are instructed to connive simultaneously, they connive one at a time in the order of their controller's choice.
- : If no card is discarded, most likely because that player's hand is empty and an effect says they can't draw cards, the conniving creature does not receive a +1/+1 counter.
- : You choose which creatures to phase out after all of those creatures have connived.