
Tax Collector
Creature — Human Advisor
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.)
Few things in this world are as certain.
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Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Format legality
Rulings
- 2024-07-05
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 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 noncreature permanent is detained and later turns into a creature, it won’t be able 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
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.