Fearful Mages

Haste
{2}: Gain control of Fearful Mages and untap it.
Any player other than Fearful Mages controller
may activate this ability during their turn as a
sorcery.
When Fearful Mages dies, its owner may have it
deal 2 damage to any target, scry 2, or put 2
+1/+1 counters on target creature.
"Isn't that better than to stop functioning?"