See Song of the Baloths.

Kinda like Meteor Golem.

I guess the flexibility is what makes this so expensive. I like the Seasinger reference though :)

In bolas' clutches is uncommon and you get to keep the entire creature.

Bolas' clutches can't snatch (animate) lands, planeswalkers, enchantments, and artifacts.

This really isn't stealing per se, more like Banishing Light with a body. So it doesn't feel that blue mechanically speaking... though it seems that the permanent doesn't lose its abilities. Idk, man. That gets weird when stealing planeswalkers. Actually, it still loses its planeswalker type so you can't activate its abilities and it doesn't lose loyalty when dealt damage I think even if it keeps its loyalty abilities and counters.

Actually a nonplaneswalker creature with loyalty abilities gets to use the abilities (only one per turn anymore since a rules update) unless the rules on that changed.

It's been a FAQ with Experiment Kraj and animation/counter shenanigans since the beginning.

Yes, the important thing here that distinguishes this from removal of the kind of Meteor Golem is that the Fish doesn't lose abilities.

I'd say overall this is a weaker Annex, but for corner cases you might prefer the Fish form and there is not enough difference to justify a change in mana cost. It's within variance.

Maybe the downside is enough to allow this to be an uncommon, but the potential for rules issues is more on the level of a rare.

­Annex? I assume you mean Confiscate.

I always mix those two names up. ^^" Even though Annex is so clearly flavored to take over only land.

­Confiscate is the reference card at as well.

Those are high cost because, well, you don't just deprive the opponent of their win condition; you have it yourself now. Heck, you could run a control deck with no other win conditions at all, and rely on your opopnent to supply them. (And, uh, choose to play instead of draw in a mirror match? Oops.)

I guess this still does that if the win condition is something other than a creature. But stealing a big stompy thing and nerfing it at the same time seems annoying.

Though, saying "Your Gilded Lotus is now a fish. I attack you with it." may be worth the downside. ;)

Published as mtgnexus Card of the Day 2021-04-20.