Mind Control: outright broken card

Back then, when people were still enjoying nuking the field with their Raigeki and Dark Hole, one of the outright strongest spells was Change of Heart. This card allowed you to literally steal your opponent's monster and either tribute summon with it or clear your opponent's field for an easy direct attack, sometimes resulting in an easy win. What made matters worse was this spell could also target face-down defense position monsters, destroying any hope of surviving for your opponent for one more turn in case he/she is wishing to stall with a defense position monster.



Good thing we don't see Change of Heart on tables anymore today, but what we do see is Mind Control. At a glance, this card doesn't do anything quite useful at all aside from Change of Heart's monster stealing effect. You could also use the effect of a monster you took control off, for example, Dark Armed Dragon's effect. But your opponent is still safe and is assured that the monster you stole would come back to him at the End Phase and at the same time, it can't attack you and it can't be used for as a tribute.

With the introduction of 5D's, synchro summons were introduced. So what does this have to do with this card? Basically, even though you can't use the stolen card as a tribute nor attack with it, you could use it as a part for synchro summoning-almost the same as using it as a tribute! With a prep-ed up Extra deck of a mixture of level 5 to 9 monsters, whatever monster your opponent throws at you, you can still use it for a synchro summon. What's even worse is that this card is still in unlimited status, meaning you can have 3 copies of it on your deck. Oh, and let's not conveniently forget about this card being able to target face-down defense position monsters too. Having a change of heart?

I am eagerly waiting for the latest list and definitely, this card is one of those cards that are sure to get hit, at least in my opinion.