Exchange of Words
Exchange of Words: Enchantment, The List. When this enchantment enters, choose two target creatures. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {1}{U}{U}
- Mana value
- 3
- Type
- Enchantment
- Colour identity
- Blue (U)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- The List (PLST)
- Released
- 2026-09-28
- Collector number
- UNF-45
- Artist
- Zoltan Boros
- Commander rank
- 11,058 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
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About Exchange of Words
Exchange of Words is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare blue enchantment from The List (PLST), released in September 2026. It is collector number UNF-45 in that set, with art by Zoltan Boros. It costs {1}{U}{U} (one generic and two blue mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. Its colour identity is blue. It is legal in Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander and Oathbreaker. It has been printed in 2 sets, from The List (2020) to Unfinity (2022). The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.38 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-01).
Card text
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.
Before criticizing, walk a mile *(about 1.6 kilometers)* in their head. That way, when you do, you're a mile away and you have their head.
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.38 (as of 2026-11-01).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Exchange of Words by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Legacy | Legal |
|---|---|
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
Other printings of Exchange of Words
Exchange of Words has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Unfinity (UNF) #331 | Rare | 2022 |
| Unfinity (UNF) #45 | Rare | 2022 |
Official rulings
Five official rulings apply to Exchange of Words, newest first.
- Notably, ability stickers (and other granted abilities) aren’t part of the rules text that get exchanged. Any ability stickers on either of the two permanents continue to apply to the permanent they are on.
- If Exchange of Words leaves the battlefield before its enters-the-battlefield ability resolves, the text boxes are never exchanged. Neither creature is ever affected. The same is true if either of the two creatures becomes an illegal target before the enters-the-battlefield ability resolved.
- If Exchange of Words has lost its own abilities (or perhaps its text box), the effect will still only end once it is no longer on the battlefield.
- Once the exchange has happened, either of the two creatures leaving the battlefield has no effect on the other creature’s text box. The exchange will only end once Exchange of Words is no longer on the battlefield. Similarly, further changes to either creature’s text box won’t change the other’s text box.
- Exchanging two creatures’ text boxes means that each one loses its rules text and replaces it with the rules text the other one had. In Un- games, this also means the text boxes themselves are exchanged, including the flavor text and watermarks in those text boxes. In both cases, this is a text-changing effect.
Similar cards
Other enchantment cards with a blue colour identity, ranked by how often they appear in Commander decks.
In these precons
Exchange of Words is in the decklist of these preconstructed Commander decks.