
Harness by Force
Card Information
Type: Sorcery
Mana Cost: 1
CMC: 3
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Journey into Nyx (JOU)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 100
Oracle Text
Strive — This spell costs {2}{R} 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.
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- April 26, 2014
You choose how many targets each spell with a strive ability has and what those targets are as you cast it. It's legal to cast such a spell with no targets, although this is rarely a good idea. You can't choose the same target more than once for a single strive spell.
Source: wotc - April 26, 2014
If all of the spell's targets are illegal when the spell tries to resolve, it won't resolve and none of its effects will happen. If one or more of its targets are legal when it tries to resolve, the spell will resolve and affect only those legal targets. It will have no effect on any illegal targets.
Source: wotc - April 26, 2014
If a spell or ability allows you to cast a strive spell without paying its mana cost, you must pay the additional costs for any targets beyond the first.
Source: wotc - April 26, 2014
If such a spell is copied, and the effect that copies the spell allows a player to choose new targets for the copy, the number of targets can't be changed. The player may change any number of the targets, including all of them or none of them. If, for one of the targets, the player can't choose a new legal target, then it remains unchanged (even if the current target is illegal).
Source: wotc - April 26, 2014
Gaining control of a creature doesn't cause you to gain control of any Auras or Equipment attached to it.
Source: wotc - April 26, 2014
The mana cost and mana value of strive spells don't change no matter how many targets they have. Strive abilities affect only what you pay.
Source: wotc - April 26, 2014
Harness by Force can target any creature, even one that's untapped or one you already control.
Source: wotc
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