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.
Unwilling Recruit
Last observed on Scryfall 6 days ago at $0.68, holding the same level over the trailing thirty days. Over the trailing 90 days the price moved between $0.03 and $0.68 across 47 observations — a stable band. Cross-checked across TCGplayer, eBay sold, Cardmarket EU, and Star City.
This printing is one of 3 catalogued treatments from EVE — the lineup includes Foil and 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.
Card #64 of *Eventide*, the set that shipped alongside the July 2008 Eventide release.
Card type: Sorcery, color identity red, printed at uncommon. Uncommons fill the middle-tier slots in a standard booster configuration. Mana cost: {X}{R}{R}{R} (3 converted).
Legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, and Commander.
EDHrec ranks this card #22,287 in Commander, putting it in the fringe-play tier of the format's playable pool.
Illustrated by Dave Allsop. Rarix catalogs 258 other cards credited to this artist.
Magic: The Gathering · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · Illus. Dave Allsop
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