Broadcast Takeover
Sorcery
Gain control of all artifacts your opponents control until end of turn. Untap them. They gain haste until end of turn.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Price
- $1.86
- EDHREC rank
- #19417
Broadcast Takeover steals any permanent — including lands, enchantments, and artifacts like Mycosynth Lattice — for the low price of handing your opponent a 1/1 and waiting one upkeep. That's a catastrophic swing in most game states, and the delay rarely matters when you're taking something that wins the game.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Broadcast Takeover is a Commander card at heart — six mana is a steep ask in any 60-card format, and the one-upkeep delay is a liability when opponents untap and kill you. In Commander, neither problem bites as hard: ramp is abundant, the table can't always pivot to answer everything at once, and stealing a game-ending permanent from one player while the others watch is exactly the kind of high-drama play the format rewards. Competitive tables will find this too slow, but at mid-power pods it frequently ends games the turn it resolves.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Mycosynth LatticeBroadcast Takeover
Gain control of all permanents until end of turn
View on Commander Spellbook ↗Price Context
Current price
$1.86 cheap tier
At $1.86, Broadcast Takeover sits in impulse-buy territory for any blue Commander deck that wants unconditional permanent theft. New-card prices tend to drift, but a six-mana effect with no targeting restriction has enough raw power to hold this range.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.