About Face

set	min	mtgo
-	17.02	0.04 tix

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Name	About Face
Type	Instant
Description	Switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.
Flavor	The overconfident are the most vulnerable.
Artist	Melissa A. Benson
Set	Urza's Legacy #73
Wallpaper	download
Image	download

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About About Face

About Face, Instant, designed by Melissa A. Benson first released in Feb, 1999 in the set Urza's Legacy. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of 17.02. It's a key card in 2 combos.

This card, About Face, would be beneficial in a deck that focuses on manipulating power and toughness to gain a strategic advantage in combat situations. Decks that rely on combat tricks, pump spells, or creatures with abilities that trigger based on power or toughness changes could find value in using this card. While About Face is a versatile option for such decks, there are potentially better cards like Temur Battle Rage or Assault Strobe that provide more impactful effects for a similar mana cost, so its inclusion in a deck would depend on the specific strategy and synergies at play.

Rules

03/19/21

Because damage remains marked on a creature until the damage is removed as the turn ends, nonlethal damage dealt to a creature may become lethal if you switch its power and toughness during that turn.

04/15/13

Switching a creature’s power and toughness twice (or any even number of times) effectively returns the creature to the power and toughness it had before any switches.

11/01/05

Note that the wording “Effects that alter the creature’s power alter its toughness instead, and vice versa, this turn” has been removed.

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