mtg cards that redirect damage oracletag:damage-redirection · Scryfall Magic: The Gathering Search you lose 2 life and sacrifice two creatures MTGNexus - Lightning Redirection [Rift

Retry Logic: Image generation can sometimes fail

This, in turn, makes it far easier to find more cards that fit your gameplan

When the card came out, everyone asked me if I'd designed it, and I said yes, but no one seemed to listen when I explained all the above, so people just mocked me on social media (I'm used to it, but still)

Lands have only gotten better since then, especially in a format where one of the most universally understood Rule 0 expectations is that mass land destruction is a non-starter

Darksteel Mutation is an exception to this rule since it blanks the creature, and it's one of the few ways to render a commander useless: Since the creature is still on the field, an enchanted commander won't go back to the command zone

She also makes a bunch of mana, covering the lands-matter part of Jund's mechanical identity