Reverse the Sands
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Commander 2016C16 · #75
- Card type
- Sorcery
- Rarity
- Rare
- Indicative price
- 0.45 € · 1.04 $
- Mana value
- 8
- Colour
- White
Card text
Redistribute any number of players' life totals. (Each of those players gets one life total back.)
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Jeremy Jarvis
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2016-11-11
Flavour text
Worse than the years of aging was the burden of memory. The young monk lost his youth and gained a vicarious lifetime of hardship and woe.
Rulings
You can’t split up a life total when you redistribute it. For example, suppose that in a two-player game your life total is 5 and your opponent’s life total is 15 when Reverse the Sands starts to resolve. You can choose to (a) leave the life totals as they are or (b) make your life total 15 and your opponent’s 5. You can’t choose to make your life total 20 and your opponent’s 0.
You choose which player gets which life total when the spell resolves.
