Fate Transfer
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
ShadowmoorSHM · #161
- Card type
- Instant
- Rarity
- Common
- Indicative price
- 0.23 € · ★ 7.64 € · 0.36 $ · ★ 23.14 $
- Mana value
- 2
- Colour
- Blue Black
Card text
Move all counters from target creature onto another target creature.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PauperLegal
- PaupercommanderLegal
- PredhLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Wayne England
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2008-05-02
Flavour text
"The cinders find strength in suffering, the elves in beauty. But if you make an elf suffer, he gets weaker. I wonder what happens if you make a cinder beautiful?" —Hrugash, leech bonder
Rulings
Fate Transfer moves any kind of counters, not just -1/-1 counters.
If either one of the targets becomes illegal (because it leaves the battlefield or for any other reason) by the time Fate Transfer resolves, the counters don’t move. If both targets become illegal, Fate Transfer doesn’t resolve.
This effect may result in useless counters being placed on a creature. For example, if an age counter is moved from a creature with cumulative upkeep to a creature without cumulative upkeep, it will have no effect on the new creature.