About Face
Instant
Switch target creature's power and toughness until end of turn.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- The List
- Price
- $0.10
- EDHREC rank
- #23130
About Face swaps a creature's power and toughness until end of turn for a single red mana — cheap enough to enable surprise kills or block-and-survive tricks with almost no setup cost. It's a narrow combat trick, but at one mana the ceiling is real in the right shell.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, About Face earns a slot almost exclusively in creature-combat decks that want to push through lethal damage — pair it with a high-toughness blocker that suddenly becomes a finisher, or use it to kill an attacker that trades poorly after the swap. Pauper is where About Face sees its most competitive play, slotting into red aggro and combo shells that abuse power-toughness manipulation on a budget. Legacy and Vintage have access to it but the effect is too situational to compete for spell slots at those power levels. The card is simply too narrow for most Commander lists unless your commander's toughness is meaningfully higher than its power and you're regularly looking for that one combat step to close a game.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.10 bulk tier
At $0.10, About Face is deep bulk — you're not paying for scarcity, you're paying for cardboard. At that price point there's no financial argument against picking up copies if the effect fits your deck, and no reason to expect the price to move in either direction.
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Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.