Proving their is nothing you have, or might eventually have, that blue can't steal.
ESUpin
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Control Magic is a 2-for-1 deal because you're taking away a creature your opponent paid mana to cast, but Bribery can search out your opponent's best creature card.
Mattmedia
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(3 votes)
WTMcF? 5 mana to bring out your opponents biggest creature, and then kill him with it, and you really would not care if he kills it, because of the satisfaction of him wasting his destroy spells on his own creatures.
Gaussgoat
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(5 votes)
While there might be other cards I'd like to have for 5CC, it is pretty hard to think of them right now LOL. A reverse tutor that not only gives you Control Magic but takes out your opponents leading threat at the same time... devastating.
5/5
pwdrrider
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(5 votes)
"search target opponent's library" seems like a pretty awesome thing too
majinara
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(5 votes)
Balanced card, depends on your opponent. Most of the time will be ok, sometimes it will be really good. Sometimes your opponent might have no creatures. Or in the worst case bribery helps your opponent, if he searches his best creature, and he {brand}s it, {momentary blink}s it or simply bounces it back to his hand.
Kirbster
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
Dis bad boy lets you grab your opponent's best creature before he can even consider it. Still a very powerful card.
Control Magic may also play off your opponent's tempo and in some cases essentially can make him skip a turn - but Bribery can hit untargetable or pro-blue creatures and can't be disenchanted.
__Silence__
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Because the "search" requires you to find a card with certain characteristics, you don't have to find the card if you don't want to.
I found it... Oh wait I don't want to find it.. Never mind I can't find it...
VoidedNote
★★★★☆ (4.8/5.0)(4 votes)
Man... blue really has gotten nerfed... but even as a blue player I have to admit that we had the most broken cards back in the day.
5/5 for 5 cmc of brokenness.
SweetZombiJesus
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
One of my fave victories was when my opponent tapped out using this (knwoing my turn would be used killing it, so no need to keep mana open for counters), and at the end of his turn I used Otherworldly Journey on the stolen Yosei, the morning star.
He scooped seeing I was going to have a 6/6 flyer on my turn and I could use my mana to play Plow Under or Greater GOod etc.
ChaosFire
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I play it in EDH to punish people for playing Legendary Eldrazi, especially Emrakul.
With mana vault, you can do it turn 2.
SEEMS GOOD.
Mogun
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
You are going to love working with us, so what's your name? Emrakul? That's a weird name.
Wulfsten
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(2 votes)
majinara, you're not thinking. A card isn't balanced just because there are certain situations where the opponent might be able to counter it (brand? what?). That's like the doom blade argument, but less relevant. This card doesn't have a shred of balance. Compare it to mind control. This card costs the same, but allows you to search the opponent's library instead of picking from creatures in play, and it's not an enchantment, so it's far more permanent than mind control. It's objectively unbalanced.
wstonefi
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Definitely the most powerful card in Mercadian Masques, an otherwise mediocre set. For just five mana, you get to seek out and neutralize your opponent's biggest threat... and then beat him in the face with it! At the very worst, it's a two-for-one, since he will be forced to use removal on his own creature. And, as if that weren't enough, you also get to look through his entire library and possibly gain valuable knowledge about which cards you need to be wary of.
In short, this card is completely unbalanced. An easy 5/5 for overpoweredness alone.
thepillow
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Mercadian masques had some nice blue cards, charisma is another card that will steal an emrakul if used correctly.
Pigfish99
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I fear this card, as a green player. luckily, nobody I have played against has this.
If you manage to play against a green deck, all you need is some protection, a way to get this out early, and BAM.
Areps
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
greatest d-i-c-k move EVER
konokono
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Awesome card. Lets you know what's in your opponent's hand as an added benefit :) (assuming you know their deck)
liphttam1
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
That one win card that your enemy is waiting on... is now yours.
I used to have a nice an eldrazi ramp deck... then my friends started main-boarding this.
bolttotheface
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Any card with the words "search target opponent's library" in its text box automatically earns a 5/5 from me.
donjohnson
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Why do some of the best cards in Magic have some of the worst art?
O0oze
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
emrakul turn 5? yes.
raptorman333
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
it's great until that player bounces the creature back to his/her hand. then you effectively wasted a turn tutoring their card for them. i know from experience.
Pontiac
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I like to say "shopping" when I play it and watch all the players at the EDH table cringe when I look at them and then point out my victim and say "at your mall"
Lord_Ascapelion
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
This card has genuinely increased in power as time went on. Creatures got stronger- MUCH stronger! With things like Eldrazi and other high-price, game winning fatties that are actually worth their mana costs, this card has become more than good- it's cruel. It discourages you from even putting big creatures in your deck in the first place. The rise of EDH lead to its price to skyrocket- it was pretty much a dollar rare 10 years ago. More than anything, this card just FEELS BAD to get hit with. You cringe whenever you see your opponent shove his hand out, demanding your deck. Mean, mean, mean...
N03y3D33R
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
What makes this card one of the most potentially devastating control magic variants is that it targets creatures that would otherwise be untargetable due to them not being in play. Casting a Bribery and finding something like Progenitus or Emrakul in their library is unbelievably rewarding because it immediately turns that superior defense against them.
That being said, even without a obviously juicy target to cast, taking control of something with a Sorcery (something blue has an easy time copying and recurring from the graveyard) is always welcome.
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5/5
Most of the time will be ok, sometimes it will be really good. Sometimes your opponent might have no creatures. Or in the worst case bribery helps your opponent, if he searches his best creature, and he {brand}s it, {momentary blink}s it or simply bounces it back to his hand.
Control Magic may also play off your opponent's tempo and in some cases essentially can make him skip a turn - but Bribery can hit untargetable or pro-blue creatures and can't be disenchanted.
I found it... Oh wait I don't want to find it.. Never mind I can't find it...
5/5 for 5 cmc of brokenness.
He scooped seeing I was going to have a 6/6 flyer on my turn and I could use my mana to play Plow Under or Greater GOod etc.
With mana vault, you can do it turn 2.
SEEMS GOOD.
In short, this card is completely unbalanced. An easy 5/5 for overpoweredness alone.
If you manage to play against a green deck, all you need is some protection, a way to get this out early, and BAM.
Great card. Art here is a bit poor though.
Treachery into Bribery
Because reasons.
That being said, even without a obviously juicy target to cast, taking control of something with a Sorcery (something blue has an easy time copying and recurring from the graveyard) is always welcome.