Curse of the Restless Dead
Aura Curses have always struggled with a math problem: they cost a card and a slot to inconvenience one opponent, and the payoff rarely justifies the tempo. This one solves the problem by tying its trigger to the single most reliable event in any game of Magic. Every land your cursed opponent plays hands you a body, which means the Curse is stapled to the fundamental rhythm of the turn: opponents will keep making land drops because not doing so loses them the game outright. The decayed keyword is the price. Each token can't block and eats itself after a single attack, so the Curse manufactures a stream of disposable creatures rather than a standing army. That restriction is the whole point of the design: it turns a slow, passive enchantment into fuel rather than a board presence, which is exactly what the decks that want it are built to consume. A Zombie every land drop feeds sacrifice engines, aristocrat drains, reanimation fodder, and attrition plans that would rather have a body to throw away than one to keep. Point it at the ramp player and the payoff compounds; the more greedily they develop their mana, the faster you're stocked. It reframes the Curse from a punitive tax into a self-refilling resource, which is a smarter answer to the archetype's chronic card-disadvantage problem than most Curses ever bothered to find.
