Bolt Bend
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
This spell costs 3 less to cast if you control a creature with power 4 or greater.
Change the target of target spell or ability with a single target.
Rulings
7 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2024-11-08
If a spell or ability targets multiple things, you can't target it with Bolt Bend, even if all but one of those targets have become illegal.
- 2024-11-08
The single target that the target spell or ability targets doesn't have to be a creature you control with power 4 or greater.
- 2024-11-08
Once you announce that you're casting Bolt Bend, no player may take actions until the spell has been paid for. Notably, opponents can't try to change whether you control a creature with power 4 or greater.
- 2024-11-08
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
- 2024-11-08
Once you've cast Bolt Bend, losing control of all creatures with power 4 or greater won't affect the spell or cause you to pay more mana.
- 2024-11-08
If a spell or ability targets the same player or object multiple times, you can't target it with Bolt Bend.
- 2024-11-08
You don't choose the new target for the spell or ability until Bolt Bend resolves. You must change the target if possible. However, you can't change the target to an illegal target. If there are no legal targets to choose from, the target isn't changed. It doesn't matter if the original target has somehow become illegal itself.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Bolt Bend, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solphim, Mayhem Dominus | 1 | 3 | — |
| Godo, Bandit Warlord | 1 | 2 | — |
| Atarka, World Render | 1 | 0 | — |
| Deadpool, Trading Card | 1 | 0 | — |
| Karlach, Fury of Avernus | 1 | 0 | — |
| Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar | 1 | 0 | — |
| Photon, Mighty Marvel | 1 | 0 | — |
| Smaug the Impenetrable | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Red 5 decks
- Rakdos 2 decks
- Gruul 1 deck
- Izzet 1 deck
- Boros 1 deck
Every version of Bolt Bend
4 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.
Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal
- Normal
- $4.59
- Foil
- $6.94
- Normal
- $3.63
The List
- Normal
- $3.48
- Normal
- $3.98
- Foil
- $14.52
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Bolt Bend — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
