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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.
MTG · Card
◇ Catalog #430
Word of Command
30a·#430·rare·nonfoil
Illus. Jesper Myrfors
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Nov '22
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Played in EDH
EDHrec rank #18,866 · Fringe play
Variants
Gameplay
Instant
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.
Legalities
tlrlegal
duellegal
brawlnot legal
pennynot legal
PreDH
Rulings · 12
wotc
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.
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Word of Command can't be used to force a player to play a card that isn't in their hand.
Context
This printing is one of 2 catalogued treatments from 30A — the lineup includes Nonfoil alongside the standard finish. Across our catalog the Rarix library tracks every variant in the same family so collectors can compare price, scarcity and demand inside a single lineage.
This card belongs to *30th Anniversary Edition* (released November 2022).
Card #430 in 30th Anniversary Edition.
Rarity tier: rare. Rares occupy the bottom-of-pack rare slot in standard boosters.
Card type: Instant. Color identity: black. Mana cost: {B}{B} (2 converted).
Legal in Legacy, Vintage, and Commander. This printing is on Wizards of the Coast's Reserved List — Wizards has committed never to reprint cards on that list, which underwrites a structural scarcity floor on every surviving copy.
EDHrec ranks this card #18,866 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Jesper Myrfors. Rarix tracks 502 other cards credited to this artist across the catalog — browse the full gallery to see the body of work.
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