Deflection
Fifth Edition 81 • rare
- Set
- Fifth Edition
- Collector number
- 81
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana blue mana
- Type
- Instant
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Mike Raabe
- Market price
- $0.35
What it does
Change the target of target spell with a single target.
Up and down, over and through, back around— the joke's on you.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Deflection first appeared in the Fifth Edition of Magic: The Gathering, released in March 1997. As a core set, Fifth Edition was designed to consolidate the game's mechanics and card pool after years of expansion releases, serving as the definitive baseline for tournament play at the time. The card was selected to provide players with a reactive blue utility spell that reinforced the color's thematic identity of manipulating spells and redirection.
The artwork for this version was illustrated by Sandra Everingham, who contributed several pieces to the early history of the game. Her design focused on a visual representation of the mystical redirection of magical energy, utilizing the fantasy aesthetic that defined the mid-90s era of the trading card game. Upon its release, it was regarded by the community as a standard niche-use counter-measure, fitting into the deliberate, slightly slower pace of gameplay that characterized the Fifth Edition metagame.
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