Curious Obsession

The clause everyone overlooks until it has already cost them the game lives at the bottom: if you didn't attack this turn, the Aura dies. That self-sacrifice is what turns a one-mana pump-and-draw enchantment into a tactical commitment. Older card-draw Auras like Curiosity drew with no strings, content to sit on any creature and accrue value passively as long as it kept connecting. This one demands you keep swinging, which converts a value engine into a pressure engine. The reward and the risk run on the same wire: you draw only when the creature deals combat damage, and attacking is also the one thing keeping the enchantment on the table, so the card punishes the timid player who tries to bank it for safety. The friction it creates is double exposure. Spending a card to enchant a creature already commits you to two-for-one territory if that creature dies, and the attack requirement means it usually dies while tapped and vulnerable, often into open mana. What balances the aggression is the tempo math of the deck that wants it: you accept the blowout risk because the cards you draw refuel a curve built to empty fast. It is the kind of design that rewards the deck whose whole plan is to be ahead, and quietly taxes anyone who tries to play it as a midrange value card. The +1/+1 is almost incidental; the real text is the trade you make every end step.