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Curse of Bounty

Enchantment — Aura Curse1 generic manaGreen mana

A Curse that only helps you when the game is already going the way you want. The trigger fires when the enchanted player is attacked, which means the value flows sideways: whoever is beating on your enemy gets a free untap, and so do you. That is the whole political calculus baked into two mana. You can even cast this on yourself for the untap, though it also untaps whoever swings at you; and while you cannot force anyone to swing at the target, the effect is contingent on an attack step someone has to initiate. What you are really printing is an incentive. Enchant a threat, and every other player suddenly has a reason to point their attack there, because your Aura rewards them with a full untap the moment they do (mana rocks, dorks, blockers all back online). It is one of the group-hug-adjacent designs that reads generous but is quietly self-serving: you untap too, so the pile-on you engineered leaves you with an open board while a rival gets ground down. The untap-on-attack template is unusual (most effects that refresh your board key off your own combat or an upkeep), and hanging it on a decision to attack is what makes this a negotiation piece rather than a ramp spell. It leans hardest at a table with multiple players to play against each other, but even one-on-one you can enchant the opponent and attack them yourself for the untap.

Curse of Bounty (c17)
C17 · #30uncommon
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Enchant player Whenever enchanted player is attacked, untap all nonland permanents you control. Each opponent attacking that player untaps all nonland permanents they control.
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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