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Bond of Passion

Sorcery4 generic manaRed manaRed mana

Threaten with a burn spell stapled on top, and priced accordingly. The temporary-theft template goes back to the earliest days of the game, but this design bundles two payoffs that usually live on separate cards: you borrow a blocker or attacker for the turn (untapped, hasted, ready to swing) and simultaneously fling two damage at a second target. The obvious line is to steal a creature, attack with it, and then aim the two damage at a different creature or at the opponent's face; because the theft and the burn resolve off the same cast, one card sets up a two-for-one on a crowded board. The six-mana cost is what pays for that flexibility: temporary-control effects run cheap when they only borrow, and this one asks a premium for wearing two hats. The "any other target" clause is the quiet constraint worth reading twice; the two damage cannot finish off the creature you just borrowed, so the card refuses to be a clean removal-plus-tempo swing against a single threat. It wants two things to point at, not one. That is the design tension the card lives in: it is generous when the board is wide and awkward when it is empty.

Bond of Passion (war)
WAR · #116uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.05
Foil: $0.35
Oracle Text

Rules text

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. Bond of Passion deals 2 damage to any other target.
Legalities

Format Status

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