I'm glad to see this in Commander. For a deck without many creatures, it's nice to borrow someone else's powerful army and then clobber them with it.
TPmanW
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(5 votes)
Ok Bob, you're dudes are blocking Doug for me, too bad they all have deathtouch. Alright, my turn I bring back Reins of Power with Izzet Chronarch and use Jane's creatures to swing at Doug since he's they're all pretty much tapped- or have deathtouch. True story.
Long_Con
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(2 votes)
So if I cast this and then give some of my opponent's creatures back to him with Zedruu the Greathearted, do I get all the creatures back from his side at the end of the turn?
@long_con, the creatures you gave away stay with to whoever you gave them to, even if that is that same opponent they came from. the other creatures return unter their original controller's control. you can use bazaar trader to keep some creatures you borrowed. or in multiplayer, give them away to your friends with Zedruu.
dlgn
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Weird, I'd think this would be , red because of the untap, haste, gain a lot of creatures, but blue, because it's an exchange sort of thing, where you have to balance it carefully.
__Silence__
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I plan to put this into my shape shifter deck. The entire purpose is to get a bunch of the most powerful creature on the board and then basically win. So if one of my friends wants to team up with me I can use this as a bargaining mechanism and allow him to borrow my creatures. The only issue is my deck has this issue where every creature on the board becomes mine insanely fast... oh well I guess i could just give him the ability to kill everyone at once including myself. =D
shadenfreude
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I was having an argument over using this with Mass Polymorph .... he claimed that my opponent would get my new creatures at the end of turn. I disagree on the grounds that this card only affects creatures on the battlefield when it is played. Thoughts?
forumbrowser
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I remember when I built a deck around this, Dracoplasm and Brand.
Chazwald1
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
So I'll take your creatures, attack you, then sacrifice them to Altar of Dementia. Thanks.
DarthParallax
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
There is only one thing I don't like about this card:
At this mana cost, and it being Blue, haste feels wrong.
I know exactly why it's there, but it being there makes this card play a little too much like the Red family of cards. Also this is an Instant. It is bonkers and wrong for Insurrection to cost half the mana, and be an Instant, in flipping Blue. Blue can get away with playing a low-creature deck, thus enabling to really turn this into almost exactly that.
Imagine if it didn't have Haste. It would be much more Blue and more interesting to think how this might be used if that were the case.
ComboGod
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Am i wrong in thinking that this could potentially read "destroy all attacking creatures" in the most hilarious way possible? As in, They swing out, then before declare blockers, you play this, and block each creature with itself? Or would the creatures just cease to be attacking because they are now under your control, in which case it's an expensive fog.
Why is the guy from Avatar training with a machete with Darth Maul's face in the background?
Salient
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Borrowing an army is always fun, but my favorite use for this card is surprise-loaning an opponent my army riiiiight before the declare blockers phase.
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Alright, my turn I bring back Reins of Power with Izzet Chronarch and use Jane's creatures to swing at Doug since he's they're all pretty much tapped- or have deathtouch.
True story.
you can use bazaar trader to keep some creatures you borrowed. or in multiplayer, give them away to your friends with Zedruu.
Thanks.
At this mana cost, and it being Blue, haste feels wrong.
I know exactly why it's there, but it being there makes this card play a little too much like the Red family of cards. Also this is an Instant. It is bonkers and wrong for Insurrection to cost half the mana, and be an Instant, in flipping Blue. Blue can get away with playing a low-creature deck, thus enabling to really turn this into almost exactly that.
Imagine if it didn't have Haste. It would be much more Blue and more interesting to think how this might be used if that were the case.
Either way, awesome card.