War Tax
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Mercadian MasquesMMQ · #113
- Card type
- Enchantment
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.37 € · ★ 6.23 € · 2.72 $ · ★ 30.92 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- Blue
Card text
: This turn, creatures can't attack unless their controller pays for each attacking creature they control.
Format legality
- CommanderLegal
- DuelLegal
- LegacyLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PredhLegal
- PremodernLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Greg Hildebrandt & Tim Hildebrandt
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 1999-10-04
Flavour text
The worst thing about being a depraved pirate is having to work with a bunch of depraved pirates.
Rulings
The ability only applies to attackers declared after it resolves. It will not add costs to any attackers already announced.
You can choose X=0. This doesn’t have an effect most of the time, but it does mean that creatures can’t attack unless the controller chooses to pay the cost (a cost of zero is not automatically paid, so the controller can choose to not pay).
In the Two-Headed Giant format, you still only have to pay once per creature.