Breath of Dreams

A hate enchantment built inside the cumulative upkeep frame, which is the rare design where the card taxes itself as hard as it taxes the opponent. The Ice Age block leaned on cumulative upkeep as a self-limiting cost: powerful effects that decay because every upkeep adds an age counter and the payment scales with the pile. Here the mechanic does double duty. The controller pays an escalating blue tax (one blue for the first age counter, two for the second, and rising from there) just to keep the enchantment on the table, while every green creature in the game inherits a cumulative upkeep of its own, a parallel decay clock that the controller is not the one feeding. The pitch lives entirely in that imbalance: an opponent committed to a board of green creatures has to pay rising upkeep on each of them or watch them get sacrificed, and because the green tax compounds per creature, a wide board strangles faster than the single enchantment the controller is maintaining. It is a slow strangle rather than a sweeper, punishing the kind of permanent-heavy green board that the era's mana-elf and fatty decks were built to assemble. The result is a color-pie statement: blue answering green's go-wide permanence not with a counterspell or a bounce, but by turning green's own commitment into an attrition liability that compounds turn over turn.