Mandarin is an awesome MC piece, but the best one for the points is Saturn Girl.

VETERAN SATURN GIRL!!!!
NO DOUBT

Vet Grodd
Exp Controller
Unique Xavier
Vet Xavier
Unique Morgan Le Faye
Vet Mandarin
Moon Dragon
Vet Mysterio
Vet Puppet Master
Jervis Tetch
Exp/Vet Scarecrow
Exp White Queen
Vet Saturn Girl
Vet Circe
Exp/Vet Brainiac XIII
Vet Queen Bee
Vet Rasputin
Unique Hecate
Unique Sauron
The list goes on...

I'm personally a big fan of Saturn girl, with the Wild Card she can have stealth or see through stealth depending on you team. Plus the perplex is really handy.

Rasputin is my #2 choice granted he has to be knocked into it, but even then 10 range, WC, PB, WP, and Perplex.

Both Morgan, Moon, and Manderin are all good though also

no one mentioned the le prof xavier, I think that is an excellent mcer

Saturn Girl is great. Batman TA or Ultimates are huge to copy.

Most useless Mind Control:
Eclipso. I've seen Eclipso used alot in play but I don't think I've ever seen someone use his Mind Control.
He deals 4 damage so why waste the MC.

well, my favorite mcer is moondragon. she fits on any force, good a/v, great range, and a slew of other powers to fall back on, but unfortunately, state of the game as it is with all the kc supes and thor teams, i think the most useful mcer is morgan.

here's how it works. everytime i see thor and three perplexers and a tker that isn't behind thor, i grab morgan, one fig (non con artist) with perplex, a tker, a barrier piece, and a pcer, along with a few cheap b/c/f and outwit. the barrier is for if i have to go first. next, perplex up morgan's a/v and mc thor and the tker...they are now both friendly...tk out thor ten and run thor right into a my group of slicers and dicers...that generally ends the game.

in any other case however i use moondragon or if it's a lower point game, vet scarecrow or calypso.

From a 12 range actually.

Morgan has the most potential, but her shallow dial and disgraceful defense make her too costly. You can't afford to push her, she only has 6 clicks, and you can't afford to mindcontrol figs above 100 pts because they'll kill her.

Here's my picks:

True Range: V Mandarin. 12 range is amazing, outwit is a necessity, his defense is top notch, and he has great depth due to willpower and his rainbow dial.

Close combat: E Controller. You can afford to mindcontrol expensive targets without fear because he only gets meaner, and his "hulking up" keeps him effective for almost his entire dial.

I agree, Top10. Eclipso's numbers are so great that the Mind Control, while a nice option, always seems to take second place to a flat out attack. The same thing goes with Darkseid; I always use his Psychic Blast attack over his MC, especially after the rule changes. However, as we all know, having multiple options is always a good thing.

My fave MCer has to be Moondragon. After she does her TK thing, she can really harass your opponents with that 10 range and MC. And, you don't mind necessarily giving her a click or two of MC damage, because then she gets Psychic Blast. A close second is V Calypso. PC up front with MC, and when she takes some MC damage, you get some TK. Beautiful.

V Mandarin's 12 is nice with the MC....it scares the heck out of people, especially in big group games where like 4-5 teams are scrunched onto one board.

I've seen Morgan LaFey in action...she's brutal too. Sure, she takes like 3 clicks when she does her triple MC, but with that range of 12, she can stay far away and get easily healed by that medic behind her.

One final note: even though the MC rules have changed to make the power weaker, there is still nothing cooler than MCing an opponent's fig that has MC, then having that fig MC someone who is over 100 points to take the click of MC damage, then having the 2nd MCed fig beat up yet another fig. Or, you could have the 2nd MCed fig MC another fig...and so on, and so on....

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I've used Moondragon, Goblin Queen and Mandarin. For the points, I think Moondragon is the best of those.

I fear using Morgan Le Fey because of the mind control damage you take. In a recent 1,000-point battle, I used Moondragon to control my opponents Morgan. Then I used his Morgan (after 2 perplexes to her attack) to control 3 of his characters that totalled over 400 points. Those 3 figs took a chunkout of his supporting cast (took his 2 medics off of support with a dual attack, KOed a Black Panther and KOed a Con Artist) . . . then HIS Morgan took 4 clicks of mind control damage. After all that, my Moondragon only had to take one click. Did I mention that 3 of his biggest hitters were now out of position to attack me.

Mind control can be good, but can also come back to haunt you. From my side, I thought mind control was the best thing ever. That opponent, on the other hand, is likely to never play with his Morgan again.