Card
Confusion in the Ranks
Mana cost {3}{R}{R}
Whenever an artifact, creature, or enchantment enters, its controller chooses target permanent another player controls that shares a card type with it. Exchange control of those permanents.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 11 known combos. 5 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · MRD · #87
- Cheapest printing
- €5.26
- EDHREC salt
- 1.43
- Color identity
- Red
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
11 known combos.
- Lucius the Eternal + Genesis Chamber + Confusion in the Ranks + Goblin Bombardment
Produces: Gain control of all artifacts, Gain control of all creatures
View on Commander Spellbook - Lucius the Eternal + Genesis Chamber + Confusion in the Ranks + Blasting Station
Produces: Gain control of all artifacts, Gain control of all creatures
View on Commander Spellbook - Zidane, Tantalus Thief + Confusion in the Ranks + Grand Abolisher
Produces: Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2004-12-01 · Wizards of the Coast
Confusion in the Ranks triggers on itself entering. If an opponent controls an enchantment, exchange Confusion in the Ranks for that enchantment. - 2004-12-01 · Wizards of the Coast
The permanents are exchanged only if they're both on the battlefield when the ability resolves. - 2004-12-01 · Wizards of the Coast
The permanents have to share a permanent type both when the target is chosen and when the ability resolves. - 2004-12-01 · Wizards of the Coast
Even though Confusion in the Ranks triggers only when an artifact, creature, or enchantment enters, the ability can target a land if the permanent entering is an artifact land. - 2004-10-04 · Wizards of the Coast
The exchange isn't optional. If there is a legal choice, you must make one.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast