UnOrthodox suppliment: Legal

Card Name:

Mind Flayer

Mana Cost:

{3}{B}{B}

Converted Mana Cost:

5

Types:

Creature — Horror Wizard

Rules Text:

{T}: Gain control of target creature with converted mana cost 4 or less. As long as you have control of it using this ability, it loses all abilities.

If at any point, you control more creatures that you have gained control of using this creature’s first ability than there are creatures named Mind Slaver on the battlefield, return one of those creatures of your choice to its owner’s control, and continue returning those creatures until the number of creatures you control that you gained control of using this creature is equal or less to the number of creatures named Mind Flayer on the battlefield. (This takes place as a state-based action.)

{T}, sacrifice a creature you gained control of using Mind Flayer’s first ability: Add an amount of colorless mana equal to the sacrificed creature’s converted mana cost.

Power / Toughness:

3/3

Color:

Black

Color Identity:

{B}

Watermark:

None

Border Type:

Black-bordered

This printing Illustrated by Kelley Simms
Printing: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons – InQuest #41

UnCommander Rulings

It is recommended to use markers to distinguish creatures gained control of using each Mind Flayer, to remind players that they have lost their abilities and which were gained control of with which Mind Flayer.

Mind Flayer
{3}{B}{B}
Summon Illithid
{T}: Gain control of target creature with casting cost less than four. While you control target creature, it loses all special abilities. Each Mind Flayer may control a number of target creatures equal to the number of Mind Flayers in play.
{T}: Sacrifice a creature controlled by Mind Flayer to add an amount of colorless mana equal to its casting cost to your mana pool.
3/3

Illus. Kelley Simms © 1998 Wizards of the Coast, Inc.