Monologue Tax

White has rarely had a way to make opponents pay for casting spells; that job belonged to blue's counter-and-tax package and to red's damage-based pressure. This inverts the premise. A true Rhystic-style toll deters, charging opponents extra mana to cast their second spell and giving them a reason to hold back. This does no such thing: it lets opponents cast freely and hands the token to you, the enchantment's controller, for the privilege. Because there is no cost imposed on the caster, there is nothing to deter, which makes it less an interaction piece than a passive ramp engine keyed to opponents' natural spell density. Tables full of two-and-three-spell turns feed it steadily; a grindy game where nobody chains spells leaves it dormant. The Treasure output ties it to the sacrifice-for-value and artifact-count subthemes that ramp on Treasures, and the second-spell trigger keys off the same watermark that other second-spell payoffs read: the threshold Baral watches for, repurposed so that the density opponents create becomes your resource rather than their liability. What makes it distinctly white is the refusal to be punitive. It converts an opponent's tempo into your mana without ever telling them what they can or cannot do, a quiet way for a color with no counterspells to still profit from the fact that other people are casting spells.