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Commandeer

Blue

6 printings listed in our catalog, from newest to oldest.

Commandeer, Secret Lair Drop printing
Secret Lair Drop SLD · No. 2749 2026-11-09

Card text

{5}{U}{U}
Instant
You may exile two blue cards from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Gain control of target noncreature spell. You may choose new targets for it. (If that spell is an artifact, enchantment, or planeswalker, the permanent enters under your control.)
"You see, their young enter through the ears and wrap themselves around the cerebral cortex. This has the effect of rendering the victim extremely susceptible to suggestion." —Khan Noonien Singh
EDHREC rank #1860 Rare Not on the Reserved List
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The 6 printings

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Standard ∅ Not legal
Pioneer ∅ Not legal
Modern ✓ Legal
Legacy ✓ Legal
Vintage ✓ Legal
Pauper ∅ Not legal
Commander ✓ Legal
Oathbreaker ✓ Legal
Brawl ✓ Legal
Historic ✗ Banned
Timeless ✓ Legal
Alchemy ∅ Not legal
Explorer ∅ Not legal
Gladiator ✓ Legal
Penny ✓ Legal
Duel ✓ Legal

Official rulings

8 rulings · in English, source Scryfall

If you gain control of an instant or sorcery spell with Commandeer, it will still be put into its owner's graveyard when it resolves.

2006-07-15 · Wizards of the Coast

You may change any of the targeted spell's targets. If you change a target, you must choose a legal target for the spell. If you can't, you must leave the target the same (even if that target is now illegal).

2006-07-15 · Wizards of the Coast

If the targeted spell has a triggered ability that copies it (for example, replicate or storm), the copies will be controlled by the player who cast that spell.

2006-07-15 · Wizards of the Coast

If you don't have two cards of the right color in your hand, you can't choose to cast the spell using the alternative cost.

2006-07-15 · Wizards of the Coast

After Commandeer resolves, you control the targeted spell. Any instance of "you" in that spell's text now refers to you, "an opponent" refers to one of your opponents, and so on. The change of control happens before new targets are chosen, so any targeting restrictions such as "target opponent" or "target creature you control" are now made in reference to you, not the spell's original controller. You may either change those targets to be legal in reference to you, or, if those are the spell's only targets, the spell doesn't resolve for having illegal targets. When the spell resolves, any illegal targets are unaffected by it and you make all decisions the spell's effect calls for.

2006-07-15 · Wizards of the Coast

You may pay the alternative cost rather than the card's mana cost. Any additional costs are paid as normal.

2006-07-15 · Wizards of the Coast

You can't exile a card from your hand to pay for itself. At the time you would pay costs, that card is on the stack, not in your hand.

2006-07-15 · Wizards of the Coast

If you Commandeer a spell for which buyback has been paid, the card returns to its owner's hand.

2007-02-01 · Wizards of the Coast

All printings

Commandeer, Secret Lair Drop printing
Secret Lair Drop
SLD · #2749
Rare
∅ No QC price
Commandeer, Commander Masters printing
Commander Masters
CMM · #484
Rare
∅ No QC price
Face to Face Games · Foil Etched
Commandeer, Commander Masters printing
Commander Masters
CMM · #80
Rare
Tapt's Canadian calculation. How to read these prices
EA Collectibles · Condition LP
Commandeer, The List printing
The List
PLST · #CSP-29
Rare
Tapt's Canadian calculation. How to read these prices
Carlito's Boardgame Cafe · Condition HP