Change the Equation 
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Oracle Text
Choose one —
• Counter target spell with mana value 2 or less.
• Counter target red or green spell with mana value 6 or less.
Format Legality
PioneerModernLegacyVintageDuel Commander
Competitive Play by Format
Top 8 decklists that played Change the Equation, by format.
| Format | Decks 30d | Avg 30d | Decks 12mo | Avg 12mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pioneer | 24 | 2.2 | 235 | 1.6 |
| Duel Commander | 7 | 1 | 147 | 1 |
| Standard | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1.7 |
Details
- Set
- March of the Machine
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana value
- 2
- Collector #
- 50
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Recent Top-8 Decks Playing Change the Equation
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (19)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (12)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (1)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (32)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (6)
Sorceries (13)
Instants (31)
- 1 Change the Equation
- 1 Consult the Star Charts
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Remand
- 1 Tale's End
- 1 Force of Negation
- 1 Sink into Stupor
- 1 Cryptic Command
- 1 Get Lost
- 1 Reprieve
- 1 Brainsurge
- 1 Mystical Dispute
- 1 Fact or Fiction
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Three Steps Ahead
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Archmage's Charm
- 1 Mental Misstep
- 1 Condemn
- 1 Path to Exile
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
- 1 Dovin's Veto
- 1 No More Lies
- 1 Absorb
- 1 March of Otherworldly Light
- 1 Unexpectedly Absent
Artifacts (2)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (39)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Cactus Preserve
- 1 Castle Ardenvale
- 1 Castle Vantress
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Demolition Field
- 1 Deserted Beach
- 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
- 1 Field of Ruin
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Floodfarm Verge
- 1 Fountainport
- 1 Glacial Fortress
- 1 Hallowed Fountain
- 1 Hengegate Pathway
- 1 Irrigated Farmland
- 4 Island
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Meticulous Archive
- 1 Mirrex
- 1 Mistrise Village
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mystic Gate
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 3 Plains
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prairie Stream
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Restless Anchorage
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 1 Temple of the False God
- 1 Tundra
- 1 Windswept Heath
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Sorceries (3)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (1)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (26)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (1)
Enchantments (3)
Lands (26)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Sorceries (3)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (1)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (26)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (26)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (17)
Artifacts (4)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (1)
Sorceries (3)
Instants (19)
Artifacts (2)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (26)
Sideboard
8
Final: 8 | Swiss: 7
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (26)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (9)
Sorceries (9)
Instants (19)
Lands (18)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (8)
Sorceries (11)
Instants (10)
Artifacts (4)
Enchantments (12)
Planeswalkers (1)
Lands (34)
- 1 Blazemire Verge
- 1 Bleachbone Verge
- 1 Blood Crypt
- 1 Breeding Pool
- 2 Fabled Passage
- 2 Fabled Passage
- 1 Forest
- 1 Godless Shrine
- 1 Hallowed Fountain
- 2 Hushwood Verge
- 1 Indatha Triome
- 1 Island
- 1 Jetmir's Garden
- 2 Ketria Triome
- 1 Mountain
- 1 Overgrown Tomb
- 1 Plains
- 1 Raffine's Tower
- 1 Raugrin Triome
- 1 Sacred Foundry
- 1 Savai Triome
- 1 Spara's Headquarters
- 1 Stomping Ground
- 1 Swamp
- 1 Temple Garden
- 1 Thornspire Verge
- 1 Watery Grave
- 1 Xander's Lounge
- 1 Zagoth Triome
- 1 Ziatora's Proving Ground
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (2)
Sorceries (5)
Instants (18)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (26)
Sideboard
3
Final: 3 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (49)
- 1 Brainsurge
- 1 Consult the Star Charts
- 1 Muddle the Mixture
- 1 Pact of Negation
- 1 Brain Freeze
- 1 Change the Equation
- 1 Curate
- 1 Impulse
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Miscalculation
- 1 Moment of Truth
- 1 Remand
- 1 Snap
- 1 Tale's End
- 1 Unsubstantiate
- 1 Sink into Stupor
- 1 Cryptic Command
- 1 Frantic Search
- 1 Intuition
- 1 Mana Short
- 1 Mystical Dispute
- 1 Unwind
- 1 Rewind
- 1 Turnabout
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Consider
- 1 Dizzy Spell
- 1 Dream's Grip
- 1 Fading Hope
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Gigadrowse
- 1 High Tide
- 1 Into the Flood Maw
- 1 Mental Note
- 1 Opt
- 1 Peek
- 1 Spell Pierce
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Stifle
- 1 Thought Scour
- 1 Twiddle
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Archmage's Charm
- 1 Mental Misstep
- 1 Repeal
Lands (35)
Sideboard
6
Final: 6 | Swiss: 3
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (49)
- 1 Brainsurge
- 1 Consult the Star Charts
- 1 Muddle the Mixture
- 1 Pact of Negation
- 1 Brain Freeze
- 1 Change the Equation
- 1 Curate
- 1 Impulse
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Miscalculation
- 1 Moment of Truth
- 1 Remand
- 1 Snap
- 1 Tale's End
- 1 Unsubstantiate
- 1 Sink into Stupor
- 1 Cryptic Command
- 1 Frantic Search
- 1 Intuition
- 1 Mana Short
- 1 Mystical Dispute
- 1 Unwind
- 1 Rewind
- 1 Turnabout
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Consider
- 1 Dizzy Spell
- 1 Dream's Grip
- 1 Fading Hope
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Gigadrowse
- 1 High Tide
- 1 Into the Flood Maw
- 1 Mental Note
- 1 Opt
- 1 Peek
- 1 Spell Pierce
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Stifle
- 1 Thought Scour
- 1 Twiddle
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Archmage's Charm
- 1 Mental Misstep
- 1 Repeal
Lands (35)
Sideboard
2
Final: 2 | Swiss: 8
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (49)
- 1 Brainsurge
- 1 Consult the Star Charts
- 1 Muddle the Mixture
- 1 Pact of Negation
- 1 Brain Freeze
- 1 Change the Equation
- 1 Curate
- 1 Impulse
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Miscalculation
- 1 Moment of Truth
- 1 Remand
- 1 Snap
- 1 Tale's End
- 1 Unsubstantiate
- 1 Sink into Stupor
- 1 Cryptic Command
- 1 Frantic Search
- 1 Intuition
- 1 Mana Short
- 1 Mystical Dispute
- 1 Unwind
- 1 Rewind
- 1 Turnabout
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Consider
- 1 Dizzy Spell
- 1 Dream's Grip
- 1 Fading Hope
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Gigadrowse
- 1 High Tide
- 1 Into the Flood Maw
- 1 Mental Note
- 1 Opt
- 1 Peek
- 1 Spell Pierce
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Stifle
- 1 Thought Scour
- 1 Twiddle
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Archmage's Charm
- 1 Mental Misstep
- 1 Repeal
Lands (35)
Sideboard
2
Final: 2 | Swiss: 1
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (10)
Instants (49)
- 1 Brainsurge
- 1 Consult the Star Charts
- 1 Muddle the Mixture
- 1 Pact of Negation
- 1 Brain Freeze
- 1 Change the Equation
- 1 Curate
- 1 Impulse
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Miscalculation
- 1 Moment of Truth
- 1 Remand
- 1 Snap
- 1 Tale's End
- 1 Unsubstantiate
- 1 Sink into Stupor
- 1 Cryptic Command
- 1 Frantic Search
- 1 Intuition
- 1 Mana Short
- 1 Mystical Dispute
- 1 Unwind
- 1 Rewind
- 1 Turnabout
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Consider
- 1 Dizzy Spell
- 1 Dream's Grip
- 1 Fading Hope
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Gigadrowse
- 1 High Tide
- 1 Into the Flood Maw
- 1 Mental Note
- 1 Opt
- 1 Peek
- 1 Spell Pierce
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Stifle
- 1 Thought Scour
- 1 Twiddle
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Archmage's Charm
- 1 Mental Misstep
- 1 Repeal
Lands (35)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Sorceries (5)
Instants (18)
Artifacts (1)
Enchantments (4)
Lands (26)
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (15)
Instants (37)
- 1 Change the Equation
- 1 Consult the Star Charts
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Miscalculation
- 1 Remand
- 1 Tale's End
- 1 Force of Negation
- 1 Sink into Stupor
- 1 Cryptic Command
- 1 Get Lost
- 1 Razorgrass Ambush
- 1 Reprieve
- 1 Brainsurge
- 1 Quick Study
- 1 Mystic Confluence
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Phantom Interference
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Stifle
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Archmage's Charm
- 1 Mental Misstep
- 1 Condemn
- 1 Mana Tithe
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
- 1 Tithe
- 1 No More Lies
- 1 Absorb
- 1 Condescend
- 1 Logic Knot
- 1 March of Otherworldly Light
- 1 Unexpectedly Absent
Artifacts (1)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (39)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Azorius Chancery
- 1 Castle Ardenvale
- 1 Castle Vantress
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Demolition Field
- 1 Deserted Beach
- 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
- 1 Field of Ruin
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Floodfarm Verge
- 1 Glacial Fortress
- 1 Hallowed Fountain
- 1 Irrigated Farmland
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Meticulous Archive
- 1 Mirrex
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mystic Gate
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary
- 1 Nimbus Maze
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prairie Stream
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 6 Snow-Covered Island
- 3 Snow-Covered Plains
- 1 Temple of the False God
- 1 Tundra
- 1 Windswept Heath
Sideboard
Main Deck
Creatures (3)
Sorceries (15)
Instants (37)
- 1 Change the Equation
- 1 Consult the Star Charts
- 1 Lose Focus
- 1 Mana Leak
- 1 Memory Lapse
- 1 Miscalculation
- 1 Remand
- 1 Tale's End
- 1 Force of Negation
- 1 Sink into Stupor
- 1 Cryptic Command
- 1 Get Lost
- 1 Razorgrass Ambush
- 1 Reprieve
- 1 Brainsurge
- 1 Quick Study
- 1 Mystic Confluence
- 1 Brainstorm
- 1 Force Spike
- 1 Phantom Interference
- 1 Spell Snare
- 1 Stern Scolding
- 1 Stifle
- 1 Wash Away
- 1 Counterspell
- 1 Archmage's Charm
- 1 Mental Misstep
- 1 Condemn
- 1 Mana Tithe
- 1 Swords to Plowshares
- 1 Tithe
- 1 No More Lies
- 1 Absorb
- 1 Condescend
- 1 Logic Knot
- 1 March of Otherworldly Light
- 1 Unexpectedly Absent
Artifacts (1)
Enchantments (2)
Lands (39)
- 1 Arid Mesa
- 1 Azorius Chancery
- 1 Castle Ardenvale
- 1 Castle Vantress
- 1 Command Tower
- 1 Demolition Field
- 1 Deserted Beach
- 1 Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire
- 1 Field of Ruin
- 1 Flooded Strand
- 1 Floodfarm Verge
- 1 Glacial Fortress
- 1 Hallowed Fountain
- 1 Irrigated Farmland
- 1 Marsh Flats
- 1 Meticulous Archive
- 1 Mirrex
- 1 Misty Rainforest
- 1 Mystic Gate
- 1 Mystic Sanctuary
- 1 Nimbus Maze
- 1 Otawara, Soaring City
- 1 Polluted Delta
- 1 Prairie Stream
- 1 Prismatic Vista
- 1 Reflecting Pool
- 1 Scalding Tarn
- 6 Snow-Covered Island
- 3 Snow-Covered Plains
- 1 Temple of the False God
- 1 Tundra
- 1 Windswept Heath