Donate

Sorcery

Target player gains control of target permanent you control.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Big Apple Highlander	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (50)

Balaam__ on It’s Official: If You Can’t Build It, Buy It!

2 months ago

@Barbarian_Sun_Pope ha, I could see something like that being the case. Although with the state of the gaming landscape since I originally built this, maybe I should rework it to revolve around Donate

hiddengibbons on Donate Clone Shell

4 months ago

I know that if you Donate Summoner's Egg, your opponent also gets the imprinted creature when it “hatches.” Does Clone Shell work the same way?

Neotrup on If I give control of …

7 months ago

Changing control of a curse with something like Donate will not change who it's attached to, only who controls it. With most curses, control doesn't really matter (some like Curse of Misfortunes or Curse of Leeches  ^Flip do care who controls them). In order to change what an aura is attached to, the spell would need to state that like Aura Graft does, however the only thing I can find to do that would be Ardenn, Intrepid Archaeologist which requires you to still control the curse, and is not available within Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor's color identity.

Be_Jamin on If I give control of …

7 months ago

I'm building a Lynde, Cheerful Tormentor deck and I see that cards like Harmless Offering and Donate are usually paired with this commander. With her first ability and attaching the curse to myself, I'm looking for more ways to give others the curses other than multiple upkeeps. What I don't want is to change control of a curse to an opponent and then they turn it around and curse me. If that is the case, could I get an explanation on why such cards would be used in curse decks?

moo1234 on Card creation challenge

7 months ago

Camp fire's Stories {S}{S}{S}{R}

Enchantment

Constellation - whenever an enchantment enters the battlefield under your control, Exile the top card of your library

at the beggining of your upkeep put all cards exiled with Camp fires stories into your graveyard.

Once per turn you may cast a card exiled with ~ without paying it's mana cost.

"The frozen tundra stretches out forever, but once there was a green land."

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technically ninja'd but next challenge was wild

I was looking at existing cards that could be busted with overload. and tbh I was slightly underwhelmed that I couldn't find any crazy interactions. I mean there's cool and slightly broken things but a two card expensive combo should be crazy. Cards like Act of Treason, or Kefnet's Last Word and Commandeer, to just take over the entire board.

But if that challenge was to just break the game Donate exists.

If you overload donate it says: Each opponent gains control of each permanent you control...

I assume a black hole would appear.

Next Challenge: make a card to help lanturn control

sergiodelrio on The Best Deck Ever Made?

11 months ago

Seriously tho, Balaam__ is correct here.

"Gain control" does not mean what you think it means.

There are different ZONES in a magic game. One of them is the battlefield, another one is the stack. "Gain control" effects can only refer to objects in those zones (one exception: gaining control of another player ala Mindslaver)

An effect that COULD give access to your sideboard cards would have to be worded so that it includes the words "outside the game" (like Wish or Spawnsire of Ulamog). Cards do not naturally move inside or outside the game (or the sideboard) unless an effect specifacally states that and "outside the game" is also not a zone.

Permanents and "Permanent CARDS" are not the same. "Permanents" can specifically only refer to objects on the battlefield. In all other zones and in the sideboard those are "Permanent Cards" (Seed of Hope is one examle).

Under any circumstances, an effect that would bring a card from outside the game into the game would refer to the card as "(optional type specification like: Artifact, Permanent, blue, instant, Eldrazi) CARD" as seen in a Scryfall search here.

The way Brand is worded it can only (1) give you control of your own stuff on the battlefield (which in most cases is completely doing nothing), or (2) give you your stuff back that an opponent stole or got Donated or you exchanged with them (Spawnbroker and other cards could have done that), just like Balaam__ explained.

Don't you think a 1 mana spell that can slam any 15 cards on the table (or you can also cycle for {2}, lol) would have been a format staple, or immediately banhammered???

"(am I the only one wondering why people don't use this more)?" - Yes, since it sadly does not work like that.

All I can tell you now is to not get discouraged by that. Happened to me before, happened to others before, prominently happened to MTG deckbuilding legend Patrick 'The Innovator' Chapin before (Link to StarCityGames article), and it will happen again. Move on, there are many other combos remaining to be found. Cheers!

WilldelaRoche on Sharing is caring

11 months ago

This deck only have Delaying Shield, Illusions of Grandeur, Nine Lives and Statecraft that need to be donated to work, so I think that both Donate and Harmless Offering are too expensive to have in the deck for only those cases.

To donate those and other permanents I already have Coveted Falcon, Bazaar Trader + Starfield of Nyx (so the goblin can also donate enchantments), Puca's Mischief and Shifting Grift.

Azoth2099 on Sharing is caring

11 months ago

No Donate?