Perplexing Chimera

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Name	Perplexing Chimera
Type	Enchantment creature — chimera
Description	Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may exchange control of Perplexing Chimera and that spell. If you do, you may choose new targets for the spell. (If the spell becomes a permanent, you control that permanent.)
Artist	Tyler Jacobson
Set	Born of the Gods #48
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About Perplexing Chimera

Perplexing Chimera, Enchantment creature — chimera, designed by Tyler Jacobson first released in Feb, 2014 in the set Born of the Gods. It see play in 1 formats: Commander. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of $ 1.00.

A deck focused on control and disruption would benefit from including Perplexing Chimera, as it can create chaos for opponents by allowing you to potentially steal their spells and redirect them to your advantage. While there may be other cards with similar effects, Perplexing Chimera's unique ability to exchange control of itself and a spell sets it apart, making it a fun and unpredictable addition to a deck that enjoys playing mind games with opponents. Whether or not it should see play depends on the specific strategy and playstyle of the deck, but it can certainly add an element of surprise and strategy to your games.

Rules

02/01/14

After the ability resolves, you control the spell. Any instance of “you” in that spell’s text now refers to you, “an opponent” refers to one of your opponents, and so on. The change of control happens before new targets are chosen, so any targeting restrictions such as “target opponent” or “target creature you control” are now made in reference to you, not the spell’s original controller. You may change those targets to be legal in reference to you, or, if those are the spell’s only targets, the spell will doesn’t resolve for having illegal targets. When the spell resolves, any illegal targets are unaffected by it and you make all decisions the spell’s effect calls for.

02/01/14

Gaining control of a spell and changing its targets won’t cause any heroic abilities of the new targets to trigger.

02/01/14

If Perplexing Chimera leaves the battlefield or the spell leaves the stack before the triggered ability resolves, you can’t make the exchange.

02/01/14

In some unusual cases, you may not control Perplexing Chimera when its triggered ability resolves (perhaps because the triggered ability triggered again and resolved while the original ability was on the stack). In these cases, you can exchange control of Perplexing Chimera and the spell that causes the ability to trigger, even if you control neither of them. If you do, you’ll be able to change targets of the spell, not the spell’s new controller.

02/01/14

You may exchange control of Perplexing Chimera and any spell cast by an opponent, not just one with targets.

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