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Tax Collector
Oracle Text
When this creature enters, choose one —
• Tax — Until your next turn, spells your opponents cast cost {1} more to cast.
• Arrest — Detain target creature an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that creature can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.)
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Tax Collector is a clean two-mana play that fits best in tempo and control shells, where a small body can buy a crucial turn while still pressuring life totals. The choice between Tax and Arrest gives it real flexibility: Tax is strongest when you’re ahead or trying to force through a key turn, since making every opposing spell cost {1} more can strand removal, counterspells, or curve plays just long enough for you to keep initiative. Arrest is better when you need immediate board stabilization, especially against a single large attacker, a utility creature, or something with activated abilities. In multiplayer, Tax also scales well by taxing every opponent at once. Deckbuilding-wise, it pairs nicely with blink effects or recursion, since reusing the enter-the-battlefield trigger lets you adapt to the board each time. As a lore piece, it reads like a stern bureaucrat from Assassin’s Creed, turning law into pressure.
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Character Background
Tax Collector is a clean two-mana play that fits best in tempo and control shells, where a small body can buy a crucial turn while still pressuring life totals. The choice between Tax and Arrest gives it real flexibility: Tax is strongest when you’re ahead or trying to force through a key turn, since making every opposing spell cost {1} more can strand removal, counterspells, or curve plays just long enough for you to keep initiative. Arrest is better when you need immediate board stabilization, especially against a single large attacker, a utility creature, or something with activated abilities. In multiplayer, Tax also scales well by taxing every opponent at once. Deckbuilding-wise, it pairs nicely with blink effects or recursion, since reusing the enter-the-battlefield trigger lets you adapt to the board each time. As a lore piece, it reads like a stern bureaucrat from Assassin’s Creed, turning law into pressure.
Generated using gpt-5-mini · Updated at 2026-05-17 13:09:05 UTC