Portal Manipulator is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Flash When this creature enters during the declare attackers step, choose target player and any number of target attacking creatures their opponents control. Those creatures are now attacking that player.
How it works : Portal Manipulator
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
You may cast Portal Manipulator outside of a declare attackers step. If Portal Manipulator enters the battlefield outside of a declare attackers step, its ability simply doesn't trigger.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
Portal Manipulator's triggered ability ignores all requirements, restrictions, and costs associated with attacking.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
Portal Manipulator's triggered ability doesn't cause "whenever this creature attacks" abilities to trigger.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
Once Portal Manipulator's triggered ability resolves, the target attacking creatures are still considered to have attacked the player, planeswalker, or battle they were initially declared as attacking, but they are now attacking the target player.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
If an ability targets something controlled by the "defending player" of an attacking creature and the defending player for that creature changes before that ability resolves, the ability won't resolve because its target has become illegal.
No other card is named in this ruling.
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