Controlled Instincts
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
ConfluxCON · #23
- Card type
- Enchantment — Aura
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.07 € · ★ 0.20 € · 0.08 $ · ★ 0.20 $
- Mana value
- 1
- Colour
- Blue
Card text
Enchant red or green creature Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PredhLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Ralph Horsley
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2009-02-06
Flavour text
Togk Manytooth struggled helplessly as the kathari circled above him. For a warrior, immobilization is a fate worse than death.
Rulings
Controlled Instincts can enchant only a creature that’s red or green. If at any time the enchanted creature is neither red nor green, Controlled Instincts is put into its owner’s graveyard as a state-based action.
Controlled Instincts may target and may enchant an untapped creature.