
Alter Reality
Card Information
Type: Instant
Mana Cost: 1
CMC: 2
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Torment (TOR)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 22
Oracle Text
Change the text of target spell or permanent by replacing all instances of one color word with another. (This effect lasts indefinitely.) Flashback {1}{U} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- March 19, 2021
You can cast a spell using flashback even if it was somehow put into your graveyard without having been cast.
Source: wotc - March 19, 2021
“Flashback [cost]” means “You may cast this card from your graveyard by paying [cost] rather than paying its mana cost” and “If the flashback cost was paid, exile this card instead of putting it anywhere else any time it would leave the stack.”
Source: wotc - March 19, 2021
If a card with flashback is put into your graveyard during your turn, you can cast it if it’s legal to do so before any other player can take any actions.
Source: wotc - March 19, 2021
A spell cast using flashback will always be exiled afterward, whether it resolves, is countered, or leaves the stack in some other way.
Source: wotc - March 19, 2021
To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost (such as a flashback cost) you’re paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions. The mana value of the spell is determined only by its mana cost, no matter what the total cost to cast the spell was.
Source: wotc - March 19, 2021
You must still follow any timing restrictions and permissions, including those based on the card’s type. For instance, you can cast a sorcery using flashback only when you could normally cast a sorcery.
Source: wotc - October 4, 2004
Changing the text of a spell will not allow you to change the targets of the spell because the targets were chosen when the spell was cast. The text change will (probably) cause it to be countered since the targets will be illegal.
Source: wotc - October 4, 2004
It can’t change a word to the same word. It must be a different word.
Source: wotc - October 4, 2004
Alters all occurrences of the chosen word in the text box and the type line of the given card.
Source: wotc - October 4, 2004
If you change the text of a spell which is to become a permanent, the permanent will retain the text change until the effect wears off.
Source: wotc - October 4, 2004
You choose the words to change on resolution.
Source: wotc - October 4, 2004
It only changes what is printed on the card (or set on a token when it was created or set by a copy effect). It will not change any effects that are on the permanent.
Source: wotc - October 4, 2004
Can target a card with no appropriate words on it, or even one with no words at all.
Source: wotc
Price History

To study a single card is to glimpse the heart of a spell - a frozen moment of ambition, artistry, and arcane intent. Within each glyph lies a spark: a story untold, a duel turned, a destiny altered. Treat it not as mere parchment, dear seeker, but as a shard of the Multiverse itself.