Mind control effect

Mind control effects or control effects are effects which allow a player to seize control of an enemy minion. Controlled minions are treated as belonging to the controlling player for all purposes, can be directed to attack its former allies and owner, and will immediately be transferred to the controlling player's side of the battlefield, to the far right of the board.

Mind control effects are some of the most notorious effects in the game, and are most commonly associated with priests.

Far more rarely, take control effects can steal control of cards such as Secrets and Weapons instead of minions. As of Descent of Dragons, the only cards to feature this ability are Kezan Mystic and Kobold Stickyfinger.

Cards
All mind control effects available in Standard format are listed here.

Comparison
As of Knights of the Frozen Throne, there are 10 control effects in the game: The spell Mind Control is the most expensive and powerful of the options, as the only one that takes immediate, targeted control of any enemy minion in play without using a combination card. This sets mind control effects apart from other removal abilities like destroy and transform, which are represented by a greater number of cards and are in many cases easier to play than mind control.
 * Six belong to the Priest class, one is a Warlock spell, and the remaining 3 are neutral.
 * The 6 priest effects are targeted, as is Treachery, while the 3 neutral effects select targets randomly. The conditions to use the neutral effects are harder to meet / more complex than the priest effects, and are more easily played around.
 * Kezan Mystic targets Secrets and Kobold Stickyfinger targets Weapons. The rest target minions.
 * Treachery gives one of the player's minions to the opponent. The rest take something from the opponent.
 * Mind control effects are present across all card rarities, and are about evenly split between minion abilities and spells.

Trivia

 * Control is one of the few minion properties which are not displayed anywhere on the minion or in their text, instead being indicated by the side of the board on which the minion appears.