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◇ Catalog #119

Gale's Redirection

DIGITAL ONLY

hbg·#119·rare·nonfoil

Illus. Yeong-Hao Han

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in vault

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for trade

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wishlisted

Jul '22

4 yr ago

Played in EDH

EDHrec rank #8,765 · Niche pick

Variants

Nonfoil

Gameplay

Instant

Exile target spell, then roll a d20 and add that spell's mana value. 1—14 | You may cast the exiled card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast that spell. 15+ | You may cast the exiled card without paying its mana cost for as long as it remains exiled.

Legalities

tlrnot legal

duellegal

brawllegal

pennynot legal

PreDHnot legal

Rulings · 3

2022-06-10wotc

If the spell had {X} in its mana cost, X will be whatever value it had on the stack when calculating its mana value.

2022-06-10wotc

If the exiled card is an adventurer card, you may cast the Adventure spell this way.

2022-06-10wotc

Gale's Redirection exiles the spell directly from the stack without countering it. Because of this, it's effective against spells that can't be countered.

Context

This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from HBG — the lineup includes Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.

Card #119 of *Alchemy Horizons: Baldur's Gate*, the set that shipped alongside the July 2022 Alchemy Horizons: Baldur's Gate release.

Card type: Instant, color identity blue, printed at rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters. Mana cost: {3}{U}{U} (5 converted).

Legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Brawl, and Historic.

EDHrec ranks this card #8,765 in Commander, putting it in the niche-pick tier of the format's playable pool.

Illustrated by Yeong-Hao Han. Rarix catalogs 745 other cards credited to this artist.