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Magic the Gathering Control Magic?
so i was playing this game with my friends. he had a 2/2 creature. i put control magic (gain control of target creature as long as Control Magic is in play) on that creature. now its his turn and he puts a control magic on the creature. who gets control of the creature or is it an infinity looop?
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
You ar emaking this to be way more complicated than this is. Control Magic's gatherer entry is just "Gain control of enchanted creature". What you are reading is the very old wording, and its messy. It was there to help clarify in the past that gaining control of something was not changing the ownership.
Your answer can be found in the layer system. Changing controlers will both apply in the same layer (Layer 2), so it will be resolved by timestamp order. Since his Control Magic came into play after yours, his is the one to take effect, so he would control it.
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Source(s): http://forums.gleemax.com/showpost.php?p=15173964#... Aspiring MTG Rules Advisor. - Anonymous5 years ago
You are btoh correct and incorrect. You are correct in that you are not summoning it, and therefore it does not gain Summoning Sickness in the act of you taking control of it. However, Summoning Sickness does not wear off at the end of a turn; it wears off at the start of the creature's controller's turn. So your opponent casts the creature after starting his turn. Your opponent's turn ends and yours begins. Since you don't control this creature, the Summoning Sickness does not wear off. You then take control of it, but it still has Summoning Sickness. If during your opponent's next turn, he then took control back (by destroying the Mind Control Aura on the creature, assuming that's how you did it), he still would have Summoning Sickness for them as well. If a creature bounces between controllers every turn, it will never lose Summoning Sickness
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Hi im the guy who asked the question i couldnt edit my post..
the card says
You control target creature until enchantment is discarded or game ends.
You can't tap target creature this turn, but if it was already tapped it stays tapped until you can untap it.
If destroyed, target creature is put in its owner's graveyard.
- 1 decade ago
I would say it's an infinite loop of changing control until something more powerful then a 2/2 comes out. Why fight over a 2/2?
Good question.
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- ?Lv 61 decade ago
he would get back control of the creature.
your control magic wouldn't be destroyed or anything but its effects would be useless since it was his creature to start with.
- 1 decade ago
It is an infinaty loop unless someone can play a disenchant or naturalize.
Source(s): Magic Experieance - 1 decade ago
sorry man
He does he did it after you.
Lets give a example in real life.
You took his favorite book, game, pen ect.
He took it back.
who gets it?