This is what I am wondering, is there a way you can write it so that say an opponent gains control of a creature you control until end of turn. When it goes to end of turn, the control passes back to you. Is it possible to make a trigger off of the act of gaining that control back. I have it simply but I think its not quite right. Here is the card. http://imgur.com/uyywfW0. As I have it currently written as regain control, but to me the wording even for the ruling does not seem right.
"When you regain control" without any other text to supplement it implies that there is a moment in time where you control the creature but lost control of it somehow. Unfortunately, creatures aren't forced to enter the battlefield under their owner's control, so there is no such notion that exists in the game.
Fortunately, there is a solution:
"Target opponent gains control of ~ until end of turn. When you regain control of ~ this way, [do something]."
The delayed triggered ability only triggers if the control-changing effect ends, not through any other means.
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While we're talking about the card, the first ability on the sun face doesn't work. There will be no target selected for the spell ability, so it simply won't do anything.
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[c]Lightning Bolt[/c] -> Lightning Bolt
[c=Lightning Bolt]Apple Pie[/c] -> Apple Pie
Vowels-Only Format Minimum deck size: 60 Maximum number of identical cards: 4 Ban list: Cards whose English names begin with a consonant, Unglued and Unhinged cards, cards involving ante, Ancestral Recall
The first ability I can change it to something similar to New Jace's Emblem and it would still work (make it a triggered ability, instead of trying to modify the text on the card). So nothing currently exists for regaining control. I want him to start on your side, but if they say Act of Treason it. I'm trying to get him to be able to go back to you transformed.
Fortunately, there is a solution:
"Target opponent gains control of ~ until end of turn. When you regain control of ~ this way, [do something]."
The delayed triggered ability only triggers if the control-changing effect ends, not through any other means.
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While we're talking about the card, the first ability on the sun face doesn't work. There will be no target selected for the spell ability, so it simply won't do anything.
[c]Lightning Bolt[/c] -> Lightning Bolt
[c=Lightning Bolt]Apple Pie[/c] -> Apple Pie
Vowels-Only Format
Minimum deck size: 60
Maximum number of identical cards: 4
Ban list: Cards whose English names begin with a consonant, Unglued and Unhinged cards, cards involving ante, Ancestral Recall
When CARDNAME's owner gains control of it from another player, ...