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Leonin Bola

Artifact — Equipment1 generic mana

Reusable tapping that resets every turn, sold for a single colorless mana and a one-mana equip. The trick that separates it from a one-shot tap spell is the unattach clause: activating means detaching the equipment, so each use is spent until you pay the equip cost again to reattach it. That turns the Bola into a recurring rattlesnake whose window is the start of combat. Used in the Beginning of Combat step on your opponent's turn, it taps a creature out of the coming attack before attackers are even declared; used on your own combat, it strands a blocker. The timing matters: tapping a creature already declared as an attacker neither removes it from combat nor stops its damage, so the value lives in pre-combat disruption, not in a fog. Because the tap rides a creature rather than living on a single spell, it persists as long as that creature does, and the equipment can hop to a fresh body if the current holder is threatened. The friction is real: every reactivation eats a main-phase mana, so it rewards a low curve and a creature you are content to leave back rather than send in. It is colorless, removal-adjacent disruption available to any deck, an answer to one problem creature that keeps coming back without ever permanently dealing with the threat.

Leonin Bola (dst)
DST · #127common
Pricing
Normal: $0.14
Foil: $0.50
Oracle Text

Rules text

Equipped creature has "Tap, Unattach Leonin Bola: Tap target creature." Equip 1 generic mana (1 generic mana: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
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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