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Cunning Rhetoric

Enchantment2 generic manaBlack mana

Punishment enchantments in black usually make the attacker pay in life or cards from their own hand; this one turns their aggression into fuel for you instead. Every time an opponent swings your way, whether at your face or at a planeswalker you control, you exile the top of their library and get to play it, with the mana-fixing rider that lets you cast it regardless of color. The design logic is subtractive and additive at once: it thins their draws while widening your own, and the color-agnostic clause means a green player's ramp or a blue player's counterspell becomes a live card for you no matter what you're actually casting from. What keeps it lean rather than oppressive is that it never touches their board or their life total: it doesn't blunt the attack, it just taxes the decision to make one. In a multiplayer game that shifts the political math. An opponent who was going to attack you anyway now hands you resources for the privilege, so the enchantment quietly reroutes aggression toward the other seats without you lifting a finger. It rewards being the archenemy by making the archenemy expensive to hit, a subtler deterrent than the life-loss and forced-discard punishers it shares a shelf with.

Cunning Rhetoric (otc)
OTC · #129rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever an opponent attacks you and/or one or more planeswalkers you control, exile the top card of that player's library. You may play that card for as long as it remains exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.
Legalities

Format Status

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