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Involuntary Employment

Sorcery3 generic manaRed mana

Threaten effects have always fought a math problem: you spend a card and mana to borrow a body for one attack, then hand it back, so the tempo swing has to justify a two-for-one deficit against the opponent's board. The standard fix is a sacrifice outlet that eats the creature before end of turn, turning the borrow into a permanent removal spell. This one attacks the deal from a different angle, stapling a Treasure to the effect so a chunk of the four mana refunds itself. That token is the quiet accountant: it recoups part of the cost the turn you cast this, and if the plan is to feed the stolen creature to an outlet, the Treasure is the color-fixed mana that pays for the outlet while the creature itself is the fuel it consumes. That reframes the sorcery from a raw tempo play into a small combo enabler, the piece that grabs the body and, when the Treasure cracks, bankrolls whatever eats it. The rate is honest about what you're buying: a one-shot mana source that spends itself, bolted to a temporary theft, costs more than a bare Act of Treason, and the design accepts that markup to smooth the exact turn where a threaten deck runs mana-hungry. Haste and the untap round out the package, so the borrowed creature can swing or tap for value no matter what state it was sitting in.

Involuntary Employment (snc)
SNC · #110uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.19
Foil: $0.28
Oracle Text

Rules text

Gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn. Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "Tap, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

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