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Tax Collector
Card Information
Type: Creature — Human Advisor
Mana Cost: 1
CMC: 2
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Assassin's Creed (ACR)
Rarity: Uncommon
Collector Number: 9
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.)
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Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- July 5, 2024
Activated abilities include a colon and are written in the form “[cost]: [effect].” No one can activate any activated abilities, including mana abilities, of a detained permanent.
Source: wotc - July 5, 2024
If a noncreature permanent is detained and later turns into a creature, it won’t be able to attack or block.
Source: wotc - July 5, 2024
The static abilities of a detained permanent still apply. The triggered abilities of a detained permanent can still trigger.
Source: wotc - July 5, 2024
When a player leaves a multiplayer game, any continuous effects with durations that last until that player’s next turn or until a specific point in that turn (such as the effect of being detained) will last until that turn would have begun. They neither expire immediately nor last indefinitely.
Source: wotc - July 5, 2024
If a creature is already attacking or blocking when it’s detained, it won’t be removed from combat. It will continue to attack or block.
Source: wotc - July 5, 2024
If a permanent’s activated ability is on the stack when that permanent is detained, the ability will be unaffected.
Source: wotc
Price History
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