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Harness by Force

Sorcery1 generic manaRed manaRed mana

Threaten effects had always been single-target affairs: steal one creature, swing, sacrifice it before it goes home. Strive rewrites the math by attaching a scaling tax to the count, so the question stops being "which creature do I take" and becomes "how much red mana am I willing to convert into an army for one turn." Each additional target costs 2 generic manaRed mana more, which means a wide opposing board becomes a deeper well to draw from rather than a wall to break through: the more bodies they have committed, the more this can flip back across the table, provided the mana is there to cover the tax. The haste-and-untap clause is what makes the multi-steal coherent rather than cosmetic: tapped-out defenders and summoning-sick walls all come online as attackers at once, and the temporary-control window lines up perfectly with a sacrifice outlet, since the creatures revert at end of turn anyway and feeding them to something first denies the opponent the return. That is the structural logic worth noting: each new target raises the price, but the payoff is a one-turn alpha strike assembled entirely from your opponent's board. As a sorcery it asks you to commit on your own main phase, with no instant-speed ambush, which keeps the effect honest against a defender who can see it coming. Where older single-target steal spells were a tempo trade, this one is a finisher: a red answer to a stalled board that turns the opposing army into the closing swing.

Harness by Force (jou)
JOU · #100rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.35
Foil: $0.65
Oracle Text

Rules text

Strive — This spell costs 2 generic manaRed mana more to cast for each target beyond the first. Gain control of any number of target creatures until end of turn. Untap those creatures. They gain haste until end of turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
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
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Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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