Knight of the Hokey Pokey

Mindslaver Mechanic Scenario

Rules question (since you're the only silver bordered judge that I know of): if you generate infinite mana for your opponent while mindslavering them, and they have a knight of the hokey pokey on the battlefield, can you force them to do the hokey pokey (as it is part of the cost)?

No. Mindslaver doesn’t have the ability to make them perform bodily actions.

Knight Knight of the Hokey Pokey Mana Mechanics Mindslaver Rules

Mindslaver and Hokey Pokey Query

When using Mindslaver, the costs are paid using your opponents resources (hand, graveyard, mana, etc). If you activate Knight of the Hokey Pokey under your opponents control will that force your opponent to do the Hokey Pokey? Or would the cost be considered unpayable if your opponent refuses to perform the dance?

You can make game decisions for them, but can’t force how they act, so it basically doesn’t work.

Activate Knight Knight of the Hokey Pokey Mana Mindslaver The Graveyard Your Hand

Knight Activation Concerns

I appreciate that you corrected the inaccurate reminder text, but are you concerned about the balance implications of making people do the full list of body parts each time they activate Knight of the Hokey Pokey? :)

That’s what it’s all about.

Activate Knight Knight of the Hokey Pokey

Creature Types Unchanged

Is there a reason not all Unglued creatures got updated creature types? For instance, Elvish Impersonators is "Elves" rather than "Elf" in Gatherer, and Knight of the Hokey Pokey isn't human.

With rare exception we didn’t mess with the creature types. There was enough other stuff going on.

Creatures Elf Elvish Impersonators Human Knight Knight of the Hokey Pokey Rares Unglued

Hokey Pokey Rules

Why does Knight of the Hokey Pokey not require that you do the actual, complete Hokey Pokey? That's what it's all about, after all.

Because I had to write it out in rules text as many people have never heard of the Hokey Pokey. For example, the artist Kev Walker, who is English, had never heard of it and I had to write a detailed art description explaining it.

Art English Knight Knight of the Hokey Pokey Rules

3-Digit Number Cards

FYI - The other two cards with 3-digit numbers are Knight of the Hokey Pokey (in the reminder text) and Mox Lotus. (To find them type the regular expression m/\d{3}/ into gatherer rules text search)

FYI

Knight Knight of the Hokey Pokey Mox Lotus Rules Search

Mindslaver Mechanics

If I use Mindslaver on a guy with a Knight of the Hokey Pokey in play, can I force him to do the Hokey Pokey?

Technically in game terms you can but in real life terms it depends on the guy.

Knight Knight of the Hokey Pokey Mindslaver

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