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Mindslaver

~$3.20 low · ~$49.87 high

Colorless. Legendary Artifact

six generic mana

No. 176What the codes mean

Mindslaver

Scars of Mirrodin #176 · Illustrated by Volkan Baǵa

What is Mindslaver worth?

Cheapest copy

~$3.20

Foil · The List #MRD-206

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Highest TCGplayer price

~$49.87

Borderless foil · Breaking News #80

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Oracle text

four generic mana, tap this permanent, Sacrifice Mindslaver: You control target player during that player's next turn. (You see all cards that player could see and make all decisions for them.)

All 5 printings of Mindslaver

PrintingRarityNon-foilFoilCardmarket (EUR)My collection
Breaking News #63
Breaking News
otp #63· 2024BorderlessShowcasemythic· Cardmarket €1.35 · €2.37 foil
mythic$3.26$4.81€1.35€2.37 foil
Breaking News #80
Breaking News
otp #80· 2024BorderlessTextured Foilmythic· Cardmarket €32.49 foil
mythicNo non-foil printing$49.87€32.49 foil
The List #MRD-206
The List
plst #MRD-206· 2020rare· Cardmarket €1.49 foil
rareNo non-foil printing$3.20€1.49 foil
Mirrodin #206
Mirrodin
mrd #206· 2003rare· Cardmarket €1.43 · €7.09 foil
rare$4.72$18.30€1.43€7.09 foil

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Card details

First printed
2003
Printings
5
Mana value
6
EDHREC rank
#4,597 on EDHREC (Commander popularity)
Artists
Gossip Goblin, Glen Angus, Volkan Baǵa

What the codes mean

The small print at the bottom of the Scars of Mirrodin card (#176).

176

  • 176Collector number: this card's place in the set list. Main-set cards print it over the set's card count.

Cards from 1998 to mid-2014 print the collector number over the set's card count (like 90/383) next to the copyright line. They have no rarity letter, set code or language code: the set symbol and its colour show the set and rarity.

How to read a Magic card: every part and code, on real cards.

Rulings (14)

  1. 2024-04-12

    You can't make the affected player concede. That player may choose to concede at any time, even while you're controlling that player.

  2. 2024-04-12

    The player you're controlling is still the active player during that turn.

  3. 2024-04-12

    While controlling another player, you also continue to make your own choices and decisions.

  4. 2024-04-12

    Controlling a player doesn't allow you to look at that player's sideboard. If an effect instructs that player to choose a card from outside the game, you can't have that player choose any card.

  5. 2024-04-12

    In a Two-Headed Giant game, gaining control of a player causes you to gain control of each player on that team.

  6. 2024-04-12

    While controlling another player, you make all choices and decisions that player is allowed to make or is told to make during that turn. This includes choices about what spells to cast or what abilities to activate, as well as any decisions called for by triggered abilities or for any other reason.

  7. 2024-04-12

    If the targeted player skips their next turn, you'll control the next turn the affected player actually takes.

  8. 2024-04-12

    Multiple player-controlling effects that affect the same player overwrite each other. The last one to be created is the one that works.

  9. 2024-04-12

    While controlling another player, you can see all cards in the game that player can see. This includes cards in that player's hand, face-down cards that player controls, and any cards in that player's library the player may look at.

  10. 2024-04-12

    You only control the player. You don't control any of that player's permanents, spells, or abilities.

  11. 2024-04-12

    You also can't make any choices or decisions for the player that would be called for by the tournament rules (such as whether to take an intentional draw or whether to call a judge).

  12. 2024-04-12

    You can use only the affected player's resources (cards, mana, and so on) to pay costs for that player; you can't use your own. Similarly, you can use the affected player's resources only to pay that player's costs; you can't spend them on your costs.

  13. 2024-04-12

    You can't make any illegal decisions or illegal choices—you can't do anything that player couldn't do. You can't make choices or decisions for that player that aren't called for by the game rules or by any cards, permanents, spells, abilities, and so on. If an effect causes another player to make decisions that the affected player would normally make (such as Master Warcraft does), that effect takes precedence. In other words, if the affected player wouldn't make a decision, you wouldn't make that decision on that player's behalf.

  14. 2024-04-12

    You could gain control of yourself using Mindslaver, but gaining control of yourself doesn't really do anything.

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