Card text
If a creature would enter the battlefield under an opponent's control this turn, it enters under your control instead.
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Mana cost
{3}{U}{U}{U}
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Card text
If a creature would enter the battlefield under an opponent's control this turn, it enters under your control instead.
Format legality
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- AlchemyNot legal
About Gather Specimens
Gather Specimens (45) is a Blue Instant from Shards of Alara (ALA). It costs {3}{U}{U}{U} and has mana value 6. It is printed at Rare rarity. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage and Commander and 1 more format.
Shards of Alara is a main expansion, released October 2008.
If a creature would enter the battlefield under an opponent's control this turn, it enters under your control instead.
Card details
- Card number
- 45
- Set
- Shards of Alara (ALA)
- Set type
- Expansion
- Released
- 3 October 2008
- Rarity
- Rare (R)
- Printing
- Standard
- Type line
- Instant
- Colour
- Blue
- Colour identity
- Blue
- Mana cost
- {3}{U}{U}{U}
- Finish
- Non-foil
TCGplayer listing: Gather Specimens
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