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Criminal Enterprise

Enchantment2 generic manaBlack mana

Aristocrats decks have always run into the same bottleneck: they need a steady supply of expendable bodies, and most of the payoff cards assume you have solved fodder-generation somewhere else. This handles both halves in one enchantment, first minting a token to sacrifice and then paying you for spending it. The evasion on that 2/1 Villain is the quiet part doing real work: menace means it either trades up or connects, and its eventual death still feeds the drain either way. The single point of toughness is not a liability so much as an invitation, since the whole point is to churn the body over. The ceiling lives in the phrasing "a Villain you control," not "this token": the drain fires on any Villain's death, so the enchantment reads as a tribal payoff rather than a one-and-done loop that dries up after the starter dies. That is the difference between this and the disposable-token designs it resembles. Left alone it produces one body and a slow trickle. Placed behind a stream of Villains and a sacrifice outlet, it becomes a repeating symmetrical drain that chips each opponent while refilling your own life total. The design leans entirely on that tribal type line to scale, which makes it a build-around anchor rather than a self-sufficient value piece.

Criminal Enterprise (msc)
MSC · #652uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.54
Foil: $1.10
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this enchantment enters, create a 2/1 black Villain creature token with menace. (It can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Whenever a Villain you control dies, this enchantment deals 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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