As I am short on time and this card appears pretty basic, I’ll skip my normal formatting.  Yeah, huge difference, I know. ;) Mind Control is a Normal Spell that is basically “CoH-Lite”.  You get the benefit of being able to temporarily “remove” an opponent’s Monster (face-up or Set) from their side of the field and add it to yours until the end of the turn.  Unlike Change of Heart, that appears to be the only real benefit.  The Monster cannot be Tributed.  That’s Tributed in any sense unless they rule otherwise, as opposed to not being able to use it for a Tribute Summon (like a Sheep Token from Scapegoat).  It can’t be used to attack either.  So, it really does just end up temporarily removing an opponent’s Monster… unless it has some sort of an effect to take advantage of.  Notice you can use manual effects that don’t involve Tributing, and you can change Battle Position (assuming that the Monster normally would be able to that turn).  So it will kill a Berserk Gorilla.  You can snag an opponent’s Cyber Jar and then flip it for the effect.  Finally, you can take control of something with a truly sick effect like Black Luster Soldier-Envoy of the Beginning and both clear it out of the way of your own attacking Monster, plus use BLS’s effect to remove that Set Monster they have left on their side of the field.  So it isn’t totally useless.  It does require some rather specific circumstances to be useful.  Pity it wasn’t a Quick-Play: it would be a rather solid mechanism, and probably bump this up to a playable level.  At least it’s not overpowered.

 

Ratings

 

Traditional       : 1.25/5-Perhaps I am being too generous.  For one thing, even if CoH is banned, it would remain playable here.  Still, given the way this format works, you’ll usually be clearing your opponent’s Monster out of your way while having access to at least a half decent effect.

 

Advanced        : 2/5-Add +0.5 if CoH is banned.  This let’s you remove an obstacle for one turn.  Not great, but decent.  There are a decent amount of Flip-Effect Monsters played, and this lets you turn them to your advantage.  It also acts as extra removal against the reasonably common Berserk Gorilla.  Still sub-par, but almost a good card.

 

Limited            : 1/5-It’s a promo from a video game, so it’s rather hard to use in a Limited event. ;)  Still, should it ever be re-released in a set, unless the set was way overloaded with other removal cards, the nature of limited makes removing a road block, even for a turn, a solid ability (bump it up to 3.5/5 in that case).