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Blind with Anger

Instant — Arcane3 generic manaRed mana

The genre standard for steal-and-swing is locked to sorcery speed, which means a Threaten effect always commits you to your own turn and telegraphs the theft a full attack step ahead. Pushing the same package to instant speed rewrites that math entirely. You can hold this up through an opponent's combat to seize a freshly tapped attacker and turn it on its master, or grab a borrowed blocker on their turn when nobody saw it coming. The untap-and-haste machinery is identical to every Threaten that came before (a creature changing control always counts as summoning-sick for its new controller, so haste is mandatory baggage, not a bonus, and the untap merely readies a body that already swung or paid for something), so the rate was never the point: the speed is. That speed is what the extra mana buys. Four mana sits a full point above the three-mana baseline for this kind of effect, and that point is the premium for holding the steal in reserve rather than broadcasting it. The nonlegendary clause is the second tax, fencing the spell off from the exact body a control-theft effect most wants to point at: the legendary finisher. As an Arcane instant it accepts Splice onto Arcane riders revealed from your hand, so a steal-and-swing turn can fold in an extra spirit or a burn payoff alongside the theft.

Blind with Anger (chk)
CHK · #158uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.24
Foil: $1.25
Oracle Text

Rules text

Untap target nonlegendary creature and gain control of it until end of turn. That creature gains haste until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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