Sounds hilarious in multiplayer since you don't have to clash with the enchanted creature's owner. Could work quite well in a Donate deck, too. Fun stuff.
Posted By:
Haze01
(8/16/2009 10:11:04 PM)
like my friend once said, this is like Hagrid's (from Harry Potter) parents backwards.
He would destroy her with a thrust.
Posted By:
Kryptnyt
(8/23/2010 9:09:07 PM)
The only fun Control Magic printed to date.
Posted By:
HairlessThoctar
(3/9/2010 2:17:52 PM)
Hylarious in multiplayer ("maybe I'm not getting you creature, but YOU SURE AREN'T EITHER!"), but, yeah, pretty much meh.
Posted By:
Lash_of_Dragonbreath
(2/2/2012 5:40:38 PM)
@HairlessThoctar: Second that.
Posted By:
Tiggurix
(6/4/2010 7:08:52 AM)
This is a really cool take on Control Magic. I feel like clash is flavorful and very appropriate here- you should have to struggle in a dominance of wills to control a creature :)
Also, I think the mana cost of Control Magic is a bit much, considering there are lots of more important things you want at 4-cost: like fair and powerful counterspells, or your key Creature Finisher. No, as written Control Magic is right-ish, but as written Control Magic is a wrong and boring effect. There should always be some sort of catch to 'gain control of target creature', and that catch should either yield a 3 cost card if it's risky, or a 5 cost card if it's good.
However, I'm grateful to Control Magic for existing so that the rest of these better-designed cards could be inspired :)
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(3/15/2012 4:05:28 PM)
Multiplayer! I'm fairly sure the way it's worded is that you can take over someone's creature by clashing with a different opponent! Let's say there's another blue control deck on the field who just putout a Stormtide or something. You could put this on the Stormtide but clash with the guy less likely to have deck manipulation.
Meh. 2.5/5
Posted By:
blurrymadness
(5/20/2011 10:13:24 AM)
Lol - This card is rediculously under-rated!
For only 3 cmc it´s an awesome control aura, since you easily can clash with anyone, but the owner of the creature that gets on your nerves - This is especially good in edh, against a lot of creatures, like Bruna for example, where the owner has multiple ways to combo with it, but in other hands, it´s rather useless
It also fits perfectly in a faerie deck, since one of the best faerie cards, The Legendary Vendilion Clique, combos just as perfect as this with Tunnel Vision - And while the clique combo is already pretty known, nobody would expect to get Tunneled with this card, though
Posted By:
Sootoo
(12/6/2012 6:19:48 AM)
That's true... Whereas Mind Control is a static ability, this control change is triggered. Possible combo with Vedalken Mastermind?
Posted By:
Tynansdtm
(4/14/2013 9:36:34 PM)