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Question: If I cast Confiscate on a Phyrexian Infiltrator, can I use the infiltrator's ability over and over (would the confiscate just keep returning him back to my control)? If so, what happens if that confiscate is removed? Does the infiltrator revert to owner's control or stay wherever it was last or what?
When it comes to control effects, the control effect with the latest time stamp wins. So if you use phyrexian infiltrator's ability that will create a control effect that has a later timestamp than the confiscate so your opponent will at that point control the infiltrator. Confiscate will still be attached but until the opponents control effect ends it will basically do nothing. If the confiscate is removed after that it won't affect the game state at all, the opponent would still have the latest control effect applied.
If you cast Confiscate on a Phyrexian Infiltrator and use the Infiltrator's ability, the control change effect imposed by Infiltrator will have a newer timestamp and will override the one from Confiscate. You won't be able to steal anything else after the first iteration of the ability resolves. When the Confiscate is removed, nothing will happen, because Infiltrator's control change effect will still be imposed on top of it.
Once you use the infiltrator's ability and it resolves, there will be a new controller change with a later time stamp than confiscate. So no, you won't get it back.
The controlership would look like this, with the latest oNE being in effect.
A. Original controller
b. Confiscate
c. Exchange from ability.
Effect c is the latest, so that's who controls it. another way to think about it would be what if your opponent cast confiscate on the infiltrator after you cast confiscate? you wouldn't expect to take control of it until the second confiscate went away. Same idea here, but replace the second confiscate with the infiltrator ability.
The mechanical purpose of Confiscate being an enchantment is that it ties the effect to the presence of the enchantment. The effect ends if the enchantment is destroyed or otherwise removed.
In cases like the ones described above, Confiscate's effect doesn't exactly go away, but it's being overwritten by other control change effects. In some cases, those other effects can wear off (e.g. someone else uses Mind Control on the same creature and you destroy the Mind Control, or someone casts Act of Treason on it and its effect ends) in which case Confiscate is still relevant because it will go back to being the most recent active control change effect. However, the important thing to note is that the game doesn't treat Confiscate's effect as "more important" than other control change effects simply because there is a permanent on the battlefield saying that the effect is there.
Question: If I cast Confiscate on a Phyrexian Infiltrator, can I use the infiltrator's ability over and over (would the confiscate just keep returning him back to my control)? If so, what happens if that confiscate is removed? Does the infiltrator revert to owner's control or stay wherever it was last or what?
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The controlership would look like this, with the latest oNE being in effect.
A. Original controller
b. Confiscate
c. Exchange from ability.
Effect c is the latest, so that's who controls it. another way to think about it would be what if your opponent cast confiscate on the infiltrator after you cast confiscate? you wouldn't expect to take control of it until the second confiscate went away. Same idea here, but replace the second confiscate with the infiltrator ability.
In cases like the ones described above, Confiscate's effect doesn't exactly go away, but it's being overwritten by other control change effects. In some cases, those other effects can wear off (e.g. someone else uses Mind Control on the same creature and you destroy the Mind Control, or someone casts Act of Treason on it and its effect ends) in which case Confiscate is still relevant because it will go back to being the most recent active control change effect. However, the important thing to note is that the game doesn't treat Confiscate's effect as "more important" than other control change effects simply because there is a permanent on the battlefield saying that the effect is there.