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Worst Fears

{7}{B}

Sorcery

JOUJourney into Nyx#87mythic
Foil

Elspeth feared that her trespass into Nyx would not go unanswered.

Border
black
Frame
2003
Pull rate
about 1 per booster–1 in 2371
Illustrator
Eric Deschamps
Found in
Journey into Nyx MTGO Redemption · Journey into Nyx MTGO Redemption Foil · 2 more
Printings4CombosIn 1
CommanderLegalModernLegalStandardNot legal
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlLegal
CommanderLegal
Competitive BrawlLegal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorLegal
HistoricLegal
LegacyLegal
ModernLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperNot legal
Pauper CommanderNot legal
PennyLegal
PioneerLegal
PreDHNot legal
PremodernNot legal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessLegal
Tiny LeadersNot legal
VintageLegal
You control target player during that player's next turn. Exile Worst Fears. (You see all cards that player could see and make all decisions for them.)
Market · per finishspark updated 3h ago · prices as of 2026-07-14
Nonfoil+2.1%
$2.89
$1.23 low$0.83 gap
Foil+1.9%
$33.12
$17.00 low$9.80 gap
Cheapest playable copy$0.68· across 4 printings

Rulings

13 · latest Jul 13, 2016 · one tap opens all
  • WotCJul 13, 2016

    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.

  • WotCJul 13, 2016

    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.

  • WotCApr 26, 2014

    If the target player skips their next turn, you'll control the next turn the affected player actually takes.

  • WotCApr 26, 2014

    Multiple player-controlling effects that affect the same player overwrite each other. The last one to be created is the one that works.

  • WotCApr 26, 2014

    The player you're controlling is still the active player during that turn.

  • WotCApr 26, 2014

    While controlling another player, you also continue to make your own choices and decisions.

  • WotCApr 26, 2014

    While controlling another player, you make all choices and decisions that player is allowed to make or is told to make during that turn. This includes choices about what spells to cast or what abilities to activate, as well as any decisions called for by triggered abilities or for any other reason.

  • WotCApr 26, 2014

    You also can't make any choices or decisions for the player that would be called for by the tournament rules (such as whether to take an intentional draw or whether to call a judge).

  • WotCApr 26, 2014

    You can use only the affected player's resources (cards, mana, and so on) to pay costs for that player; you can't use your own. Similarly, you can use the affected player's resources only to pay that player's costs; you can't spend them on your costs.

  • WotCApr 26, 2014

    You can't make any illegal decisions or illegal choices—you can't do anything that player couldn't do. You can't make choices or decisions for that player that aren't called for by the game rules or by any cards, permanents, spells, abilities, and so on. If an effect causes another player to make decisions that the affected player would normally make (such as Master Warcraft does), that effect takes precedence. In other words, if the affected player wouldn't make a decision, you wouldn't make that decision on their behalf.

  • WotCApr 26, 2014

    You can't make the affected player concede. That player may choose to concede at any time, even while you're controlling them.

  • WotCApr 26, 2014

    You could gain control of yourself using Worst Fears, but unless you do so to overwrite someone else's player-controlling effect, this doesn't do anything.

  • WotCApr 26, 2014

    You only control the player. You don't control any of their permanents, spells, or abilities.