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"Find me cards equivalent to: Word of Command"

There is no exact equivalent to Word of Command due to its unique effect (mind control during resolution). Closest similar black instants are:

  • Mindslaver (not an instant, but controls another player's turn).
  • Coercion (sorcery, looks at hand, chooses and discards).
  • Praetor's Grasp (instant, searches opponent’s library and allows you to play a card).

Closest black instant with similar interaction:

  • Stir the Grave (not hand-related, but an instant with graveyard manipulation).

Summary: No black instant matches all Word of Command effects; it is unique. Typical effects are sorcery speed (like Coercion); card is singular in color, timing, and control effect.

Found Cards

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Coercion

Mindslaver

Praetor's Grasp

Stir the Grave

Word of Command

Coercion #66 Sorcery

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Rarity: Uncommon
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    Manapool 0.15 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.27 USD
    Cardkingdom 0.35 USD
    Cardmarket 0.13 EUR

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    Target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a card from it. That player discards that card.

    Mindslaver #63 Legendary Artifact

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Rarity: Mythic
    Converted Cost: 6
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    Rules

  • Controlling a player doesn't allow you to look at that player's sideboard. If an effect instructs that player to choose a card from outside the game, you can't have that player choose any card.
  • If the targeted player skips their next turn, you'll control the next turn the affected player actually takes.
  • In a Two-Headed Giant game, gaining control of a player causes you to gain control of each player on that team.
  • Multiple player-controlling effects that affect the same player overwrite each other. The last one to be created is the one that works.
  • The player you're controlling is still the active player during that turn.
  • While controlling another player, you also continue to make your own choices and decisions.
  • While controlling another player, you can see all cards in the game that player can see. This includes cards in that player's hand, face-down cards that player controls, and any cards in that player's library the player may look at.
  • While controlling another player, you make all choices and decisions that player is allowed to make or is told to make during that turn. This includes choices about what spells to cast or what abilities to activate, as well as any decisions called for by triggered abilities or for any other reason.
  • You also can't make any choices or decisions for the player that would be called for by the tournament rules (such as whether to take an intentional draw or whether to call a judge).
  • You can use only the affected player's resources (cards, mana, and so on) to pay costs for that player; you can't use your own. Similarly, you can use the affected player's resources only to pay that player's costs; you can't spend them on your costs.
  • You can't make any illegal decisions or illegal choices—you can't do anything that player couldn't do. You can't make choices or decisions for that player that aren't called for by the game rules or by any cards, permanents, spells, abilities, and so on. If an effect causes another player to make decisions that the affected player would normally make (such as Master Warcraft does), that effect takes precedence. In other words, if the affected player wouldn't make a decision, you wouldn't make that decision on that player's behalf.
  • You can't make the affected player concede. That player may choose to concede at any time, even while you're controlling that player.
  • You could gain control of yourself using Mindslaver, but gaining control of yourself doesn't really do anything.
  • You only control the player. You don't control any of that player's permanents, spells, or abilities.

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    Cardkingdom 3.49 USD / 5.99 USD
    Cardmarket / 1.96 EUR 1.01 EUR
    Tcgplayer / 4.69 USD 3.65 USD
    Manapool 3.62 USD / 3.64 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    , ,SacrificeMindslaver: You control target player during that player's next turn. (You see all cards that player could see and make all decisions for them.)

    Praetor's Grasp #1861 Sorcery

    Variations: v1 v2
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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 3
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  • Sorcery
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    Rules

  • Other players, including the card’s owner, can’t look at the card while it remains exiled.
  • Playing a card exiled with Praetor’s Grasp follows all the normal rules for playing that card. You must pay its costs, and you must follow all timing restrictions, for example.

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    Manapool / 9.37 USD 9.37 USD
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    Tcgplayer 10.71 USD
    Cardmarket / 9.39 EUR 7.93 EUR

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    Search target opponent's library for a card and exile it face down. Then that player shuffles. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled.

    Stir the Grave #85 Sorcery

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    Rarity: Common
    Converted Cost: 1
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  • Sorcery
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    Cardmarket / 0.64 EUR 0.13 EUR
    Manapool / 0.26 USD 0.15 USD
    Cardkingdom / 1.49 USD 0.35 USD
    Tcgplayer 0.12 USD / 0.7 USD

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

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    Return target creature card with mana value X or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.

    Word of Command #137 Instant

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    Rarity: Rare
    Converted Cost: 2
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  • Instant
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    Rules

  • To "play a card" is to either cast a spell or to put a land onto the battlefield using the main phase special action.
  • You do get to choose which lands get tapped. You can make them choose an optional mana generating ability of the land that they tap, such as making them tap and sacrifice the land instead of just tap it.
  • During the resolution of this spell, that player plays the chosen card.
  • If there is a non-mana way to cast a spell, as with Pitch Spells, you may require that way to be used if it is possible to do so.
  • Since this spell is an instant, your opponent gets a chance to respond to it as normal. Once this spell resolves, you look at your opponent's hand and choose a card. Note that it is common practice to respond to Word of Command by using up any spells or mana you have prior to letting it resolve.
  • Word of Command can't be used to force a player to play a card that isn't in their hand.
  • You control the player while this spell is resolving, which means you get to see anything they can see. If that player is required to search their library as part of playing the card or as part of its resolution if it's cast as a spell, then you can see the cards in that player's library as well.
  • You may Command your opponent to play a land (if they have not already done so this turn).
  • You must order your opponent to play the chosen card if it is possible to do so.
  • Your opponent can't counter the Word of Command after letting you look at their hand, but they can attempt to counter the spell you force them to cast.
  • Controlling a player doesn't allow you to look at that player's sideboard. If an effect instructs that player to choose a card from outside the game, you can't have that player choose any card.
  • While controlling another player, you can see all cards in the game that player can see. This includes cards in that player's hand, face-down cards that player controls, and any cards in that player's library the player may look at.

    • Prices

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    Tcgplayer 67.48 USD
    Cardkingdom 49.99 USD
    Manapool 67.7 USD
    Cardmarket 34.09 EUR

    Legalities

    Alchemy Brawl Commander Duel Future Gladiator Historic Legacy Modern Oathbreaker Oldschool Pauper Paupercommander Penny Pioneer Predh Premodern Standard Standardbrawl Timeless Vintage

    Text

    Look at target opponent's hand and choose a card from it. You control that player until Word of Command finishes resolving. The player plays that card if able. While doing so, the player can activate mana abilities only if they're from lands that player controls and only if mana they produce is spent to activate other mana abilities of lands the player controls and/or to play that card. If the chosen card is cast as a spell, you control the player while that spell is resolving.