Deflecting Swat
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost.
You may choose new targets for target spell or ability.
Combos with Deflecting Swat
The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.
- Venser, Fervent Forger Confusion in the Ranks Infinite
- Infinite artifact ETB
- Infinite artifact tokens
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature tokens with haste
- Infinite death triggers
- Infinite landfall triggers
- Agrus Kos, Eternal Soldier Soulbright Flamekin Felidar Guardian Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak Infinite
- Infinite creature LTB
- Infinite creature ETB
- Infinite storm count
- Infinite red mana
- Infinite magecraft triggers
- Infinite blinking
Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.
Rulings
5 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2020-04-17
It doesn't matter whose commander you control. Any one will do. If you have two commanders, you just need to control one of them.
- 2020-04-17
Once you begin casting this spell, players can't take any other actions until you're done casting it. Notably, they can't try to remove the commander you control to make you pay its cost.
- 2020-04-17
If you choose new targets for the target spell, the new targets must be legal.
- 2020-04-17
If the target spell has damage divided as it was cast (like Mythos of Vadrok), the division can't be changed although the targets receiving that damage still can. The same is true of spells that distribute counters.
- 2020-04-17
If the target spell has a variable number of targets, you can't change how many targets it has.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Deflecting Swat, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spider-Punk | 2 | 0 | — |
| Raph & Mikey, Troublemakers | 1 | 7 | 28.6% |
| Vivi Ornitier | 1 | 5 | 80% |
| Mahadi, Emporium Master | 1 | 1 | — |
| Atarka, World Render | 1 | 0 | — |
| Auntie Ool, Cursewretch | 1 | 0 | — |
| Baylen, the Haymaker | 1 | 0 | — |
| Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Mono-Red 7 decks
- Rakdos 4 decks
- Gruul 3 decks
- Izzet 3 decks
- Temur 2 decks
- Jund 1 deck
- Grixis 1 deck
- Mardu 1 deck
- Boros 1 deck
- Naya 1 deck
- Five-Color 1 deck
- Four-Color (no Black) 1 deck
Deflecting Swat price history
The Commander Masters #214 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil | Foil |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2026 | $76.00 | $91.34 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | $76.00 | $91.34 |
| Oct 25, 2026 | $74.90 | $91.22 |
| Oct 24, 2026 | $74.46 | $90.99 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $73.85 | $90.99 |
| Oct 22, 2026 | $73.34 | $90.99 |
| Oct 21, 2026 | $73.37 | $90.99 |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $72.89 | $90.99 |
| Oct 18, 2026 | $71.30 | $91.53 |
| Oct 17, 2026 | $71.17 | $91.53 |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $72.43 | $91.53 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $72.06 | $91.53 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $72.17 | $91.53 |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $72.06 | $91.53 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $72.77 | $90.76 |
| Oct 11, 2026 | $71.44 | $90.76 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $70.85 | $90.76 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $71.17 | $89.20 |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $72.64 | $89.20 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $72.96 | $89.20 |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $74.06 | $89.20 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $74.17 | $89.20 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $73.50 | $89.20 |
| Oct 3, 2026 | $73.82 | $89.20 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $74.13 | $89.20 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $74.09 | $89.20 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $73.72 | $89.20 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $73.18 | $89.20 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $70.94 | $88.82 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Deflecting Swat
6 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 publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
Showcase
Avatar: The Last Airbender Eternal
- Normal
- $86.80
Secret Lair Drop
- Normal
- $86.59
- Foil
- —
- Normal
- $76.00
- Foil
- $91.34
Etched
- Etched
- $125.01
Inverted
- Normal
- $103.95
- Foil
- $178.25
- Normal
- $73.87
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Deflecting Swat. It runs a name search across every version, which covers 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.
