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Curse of the Bloody Tome

Enchantment — Aura Curse2 generic manaBlue mana

Two cards a turn is the rate that defines this card's whole problem: a mill clock so slow it asks the opponent to do nothing about it for the dozen-plus turns the kill takes. As a curse, it attaches to a player rather than a permanent, which means there is no creature to bounce or kill to shut it off, only the enchantment itself; but the durability does not buy back the speed. The math is the issue. Two mills per upkeep against a starting library means the enchanted player has to draw normally for most of a long game before the deck runs dry, and any single source of incidental graveyard recursion or a second copy is the only thing that turns the count into a real threat. This is the early template for mill-as-a-curse, a design lineage that kept reappearing with sharper numbers and stapled-on payoffs: later mill enchantments and creatures borrowed the upkeep-trigger shape and then added the speed this one lacks. What it represents is the version of the idea before the idea worked, the proof that a mill engine needs either a faster tick, a recursion punish, or a way to close before the opponent's own draws empty the deck for you. On its own it is a flavor-forward curse that mills slowly and asks the deck around it to supply everything else.

Curse of the Bloody Tome (prm)
PRM · #42870common
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Enchant player At the beginning of enchanted player's upkeep, that player mills two cards.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
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
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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