Captive Audience

Handing an opponent an enchantment they never asked for is a rare enough structural idea; making that gift a slow-motion loss condition is the wrinkle. The three modes read as a doomsday clock: setting their life to 4, emptying their hand, then handing every one of their opponents (including you) five bodies. The design that makes it bite is the timing: the trigger fires on the recipient's upkeep, not yours, and each upkeep they must choose one of the modes that hasn't already been chosen, marching through all three across three of their turns. After the third has been picked, the enchantment has nothing left to do; the damage is already done. The victim watches the sequence arrive with full knowledge and almost no way to interrupt it short of finding removal for the enchantment itself, which turns the card into a race between their answer and your pressure. That answerability is the balancing act: seven mana buys a threat that lives on the wrong side of the table, so anyone holding a Disenchant effect walks out clean, and the play only makes sense from a position already far enough ahead that three turns of self-inflicted misery closes the game. The card weaponizes control-donation the way Donate and its kin once did, but where those handed over a static liability, this one advances on a schedule the recipient cannot pause.