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Curse of Surveillance

Enchantment — Aura Curse4 generic manaBlue mana

Curses live and die by the social contract, and this one is engineered to bend it. The trigger doesn't punish the enchanted player directly; it hands other players cards, scaling with how many Curses are stacked on the target. That turns a symmetrical-looking enchantment into a political lever: the enchanted player becomes a shared card faucet, and the "any number of target players other than that player" clause is what makes it flexible. Enchant an opponent and you are a legal target yourself, so the draws can flow straight into your own hand: a five-mana upkeep-charged draw engine pointed at whichever player you dropped the Curse on. This holds even one-on-one, where enchanting your opponent leaves you as the only other player to feed, so the card is a personal draw engine as readily as a table-wide one. Widen the beam and it becomes something else again: feed an ally you're brokering a deal with, or the whole table in a wheel-and-mill or punisher-tax shell where drawing is the trap. Stacking a second or third Curse multiplies the upkeep draw, so the card rewards a dedicated Curse shell over a one-off slot. The Curse subtype has long been the home for this kind of table-facing enchantment, and this one leans hardest into the give-to-take axis: an effect that draws for other people is only ever as generous as who's aiming it.

Curse of Surveillance (pmid)
PMID · #46prare
Pricing
Normal: $0.22
Foil: $0.31
Oracle Text

Rules text

Enchant player At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, any number of target players other than that player each draw cards equal to the number of Curses attached to that player.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
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
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

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