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Exchange of Words

Enchantment

When this enchantment enters, choose two target creatures. For as long as this enchantment remains on the battlefield, exchange the text boxes of those creatures.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{1}{U}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
rare
Set
Unfinity
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#10735
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Exchange of Words card art
Exchange of Words swaps the text boxes of two target creatures, which means you can saddle an opponent's best threat with the rules text of something useless — or gift Archfiend of the Dross's oil-counter death trigger to a creature they control and watch it become their problem. At two mana for an instant, the cost is low enough that the ceiling on political chaos and combo potential is genuinely high.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Jon Irenicus, Shattered One

Jon Irenicus, Shattered One

26.0% of decks · synergy 0.25

Jon Irenicus, Shattered One donates creatures to opponents by design, and Exchange of Words lets you strip a donated creature's text box before it ever reaches them — or swap it onto whatever they already control, compounding the disruption Irenicus specializes in.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Exchange of Words lives almost entirely in Commander, where the text-box swap scales with the power of whatever is sitting across the table from you. Legacy and Vintage legality is technically real, but the effect is too situational and slow for those formats' threat density. Commander is where the card earns its slot: multiplayer boards are full of creatures with dangerous text boxes, and swapping one onto a vanilla blocker can dismantle a win condition at instant speed for two mana. Oathbreaker is a reasonable second home for the same reasons, especially in blue spell-slinger builds that want cheap interaction with a surprise ceiling.

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Pricing data isn't available for Exchange of Words at the moment, so check Scryfall or your preferred retailer for the current number. Given its niche but real demand in Jon Irenicus, Shattered One builds, it's worth grabbing a copy whenever you see it at a reasonable price rather than waiting.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.