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Unwilling Recruit

Magic: The GatheringEventide#64

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EventideEVE · #64

Card type: Sorcery
Rarity: Uncommon
Indicative price: 0.13 € · ★ 0.55 € · 0.25 $ · ★ 0.52 $
Mana value: 3
Colour: Red

Card text

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gets +X/+0 and gains haste until end of turn.

Format legality

CommanderLegal
DuelLegal
LegacyLegal
ModernLegal
OathbreakerLegal
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: Dave Allsop
Card language: English
Release date: 2008-07-25

Flavour text

Frorn didn't want to be kept, but he didn't want to be thrown back either.

Rulings

2008-08-01

You may target a creature you already control with Unwilling Recruit. If you do, you’ll gain control of that creature (which usually won’t have any visible effect), untap it, and it’ll get +X/+0 until end of turn.