mtg life swap cards Magus of the Mirror ·

An armoured character does the titular Reforging above a Demon-infested lava pit, a statue of what may well be one of their blacksmith ancestors visible in the foreground

Since it's a mana cheap instant, you can do this in response to targeted or sweeping removal to get cards, as a sacrifice or it can send something to your graveyard about to get exiled by Swords to Plowshares, or to get value out of a chump blocker about to die anyway

Part of the reason Im being a stickler about this distinction is that there are actual MTG rules about what it means to move a counter, and some niche interactions pop up when you compare moving counters to removing a counter from one thing and putting a counter elsewhere. I can also see a future where we get rules text that references whenever you move one or more counters, which would require precise text on the card

Heartwarming Redemption Kytheon had known war every day of his life