Grafted Identity

Blue's mind-control tradition, running from Control Magic through Mind Control and beyond, has always been a card-and-a-half of pure tempo: four-plus mana to relocate a creature, netting you a body but doing nothing to the board the turn you commit. This design keeps the same four-mana price and layers a sacrifice on top, which sounds like a downgrade until you look at what the requirement is buying. A normal steal leaves you up a creature; this one keeps your board count flat, trading a small threat you had for the biggest one your opponent had. The math only makes sense if the creature you feed to it was already spent value: a chump blocker, a used-up mana dork, a token. When the down payment is fodder, the exchange upgrades your worst permanent into their best one at even card economy. That same sacrifice is also the exposure the design accepts. You have now sunk both a card and a creature into an Aura shell, so a single removal spell aimed at the enchantment unwinds two of your resources and returns the stolen body to its owner, a two-for-one in their favor. This is not a control piece meant to survive a grind; it is a tempo swing built for a game already leaning your way, where you steal the largest body on the table and win the following combat once it can attack. The +1/+1 exists for exactly that step, tipping the block or race the base creature would have lost.