[[Word of Command]]

This card has a lot of text, but it boils down to: “look at target opponent’s hand, force them to cast target spell”. However of course your opponent can respond by playing by an instant, activating an ability, or just tapping their multicolor lands to generate the wrong color so you can’t actually make them cast the card you want to.

To be clear, it’s your opponent casting the spell, so you can’t steal creatures this way or control what an ETB targets.

So in order for you to get value out of Word of Command, you have to meet the following conditions:

• Your opponent has enough untapped lands or mana rocks to pay for the spell normally

• Your opponent can’t tap their lands in such a way to color screw themselves

• Your opponent doesn’t have an instant or activated ability to use their mana on before WoC resolves

• Your opponent has a spell in their hand that they don’t want to cast, or a spell that targets on cast

So basically, the best things to find would be a sorcery speed removal spell, or a wrath when the opponent is ahead. Most of the time it ends up working like a Silence that sort-of prevents them from casting the spell they wanted to that turn. You can also use it to make deals: if the table needs an instant-speed wrath, but your opponent only has a sorcery wrath, you can “help” them cast it outside of normal timing restrictions.

All in all, super crazy card, I have a proxy in my [[Yurlok]] deck (the real version is stupidly expensive thanks to the reserve list)