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Take for a Ride, art by Artur Treffner
Art by Artur Treffner · ™ & © Wizards of the Coast · image via Scryfall
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Take for a Ride

{2}{R} · Sorcery

Take for a Ride has flash as long as you've committed a crime this turn. (Targeting opponents, anything they control, and/or cards in their graveyards is a crime.) Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.

Rulings (7)

Apr 12, 2024 · Take for a Ride can target any creature, even one that’s untapped or one you already control.

Apr 12, 2024 · Gaining control of a creature doesn’t cause you to gain control of any Auras or Equipment attached to it.

Apr 12, 2024 · A player commits a crime as they cast a spell, activate an ability, or put a triggered ability on the stack that targets at least one opponent, at least one permanent, spell, or ability an opponent controls, and/or at least one card in an opponent’s graveyard.

Apr 12, 2024 · A player can commit only one crime per spell or ability they control. Targeting multiple opponents, permanents, spells, abilities, and/or cards with the same spell or ability doesn’t constitute committing multiple crimes.

Apr 12, 2024 · For example, an ability that triggers when you cast a spell that targets an opponent will trigger at the same time as an ability that triggers whenever you commit a crime. Those abilities can be put on the stack in either order (if you control them both), and they’ll both resolve before the spell that caused them to trigger.

Apr 12, 2024 · Changing the target or targets of a spell or ability won’t affect whether or not the controller of that spell or ability has committed a crime. Only the initial targets chosen for that spell or ability are used to determine whether or not its controller committed a crime.

Apr 12, 2024 · The spell or ability that constituted a crime doesn’t have to have resolved yet or at all. As soon as you’re finished casting the spell, activating the ability, or putting the triggered ability on the stack, you’ve committed a crime.

LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
ModernLegal
PioneerLegal
StandardLegal
PauperNot legal
PremodernNot legal
cEDHLegal

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