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Detainment Spell

Enchantment — AuraWhite mana

The hatebear's quiet cousin: an Aura that does not pacify a creature so much as defang it, shutting off only what it can do at the push of a button. Big vanilla beaters and oversized threats walk through it untouched; the targets it actually answers are the engines, the tap-for-value creatures, the activated combo pieces, the things whose menace lives entirely in an activated ability. That narrowness is the point of the whole design. The relocation clause is the hedge against the board moving on without you: for 1 generic manaWhite mana you can peel the Aura off one creature and re-staple it to another, so a lockdown target that trades or evolves out of relevance doesn't leave you holding a useless answer. It costs more to move than to cast, and the move has to happen while the Aura is still attached: once the enchanted creature dies, the Aura follows it to the graveyard as a state-based action, with no window to slide it over. The same fragility makes it a poor answer to creatures that don't stay creatures; anything that reverts to a land or a noncreature permanent drops the Aura the moment it stops being a legal host. It is a soft answer attacking the seam between a creature's stats and its text rather than the creature itself: against a board built on activated abilities it leaves an opponent's best card present but inert, while leaving the rest of the matchup untouched.

Detainment Spell (tsp)
TSP · #12common
Pricing
Normal: $0.26
Foil: $6.58
Oracle Text

Rules text

Enchant creature Enchanted creature's activated abilities can't be activated. 1 generic manaWhite mana: Attach this Aura to target creature.
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
Legal
Pauper Commander
Legal
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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