Tentative Connection
- Mana cost
- {3}{R}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths #138 (common)
- Price
- $0.19 USD
This spell costs {3} less to cast if you control a creature with menace.
Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.
Tentative Connection has 1 printing, first in Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths (2020). EDHREC ranks it #16,870 among Commander cards. It appears most in J. Jonah Jameson decks (499 on EDHREC). It has 4 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Tentative Connection most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- J. Jonah Jameson: 499 decks
- Greven, Predator Captain: 447 decks
- Yuan Shao, the Indecisive: 28 decks
- Seifer, Balamb Rival: 25 decks
- Jabs, Mistress of Mockery: 5 decks
- Gut, True Soul Zealot: 3 decks
- Dáin Ironfoot: 1 decks
- Zhao, the Seething Flame: 1 decks
Often played with Tentative Connection
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : To determine the total cost of a spell, start with the mana cost or alternative cost you're paying, add any cost increases, then apply any cost reductions (such as that of Tentative Connection). The mana value of the spell remains unchanged, no matter what the total cost to cast it was.
- : Once you announce that you're casting Tentative Connection, no player may take actions until the spell has been paid for. Notably, opponents can't try to change whether you control a creature with menace.
- : Tentative Connection can target any creature, even one that you already control or that is already untapped.
- : Tentative Connection is unaffected if you no longer control a creature with menace after you've cast it. You won't have to pay an additional {3}.