How does In Bola’s Clutches play out?
Asked by Nuubi 5 years ago
with In Bolas's Clutches does it allow me to gain control of an opponents creature and bring it to my side of the field to use as I please or do I just gain control and decide if it can attack when it’s the opponents turn who had control of it prior to me enchanting the creature or land? I feel like it’s pretty straight forward but I just wanted some clarification. Thanks.
nobu_the_bard says... Accepted answer #1
It comes fully under your control. It essentially "moves to your side" (often depicted in games by turning it to face you and moving it to your side of the table) and behaves like one of your creatures for all intents and purposes.
- You can attack/block with it (and it attacks/blocks alongside your other creatures)
- You can sacrifice it to pay costs
- You can activate its abilities as you normally would one of your creatures
- If it has hexproof, you can target it. It can equip your equipments.
- etc etc
The turn it comes under your control, though, it has summoning sickness again, mind you.
However, you do not own it, so effects that care about that may treat it a little differently - if it dies for example, it goes to the owner's graveyard, not yours. This is a minor detail though.
Note that you will lose control of it if the aura leaves play but the creature stays in play, such as if someone cast Naturalize on the aura. This is the main distinguishing trait of aura-based "gain control" effects compared to others as far as I am concerned.
March 5, 2019 1:18 p.m.