Tax Collector

Type line

Creature — Human Advisor

Oracle text

When this creature enters, choose one — • Tax — Until your next turn, spells your opponents cast cost 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.)

Rulings

• 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.2024-07-05
• If a noncreature permanent is detained and later turns into a creature, it won’t be able to attack or block.2024-07-05
• The static abilities of a detained permanent still apply. The triggered abilities of a detained permanent can still trigger.2024-07-05
• 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.2024-07-05
• 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.2024-07-05
• If a permanent’s activated ability is on the stack when that permanent is detained, the ability will be unaffected.2024-07-05

Market price

$0.28