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Ojutai, Soul of Winter

Legendary Creature — Dragon5 generic manaWhite manaBlue mana

The trigger isn't a tap effect: it's a soft lock that scales with how many Dragons swing. Each attacking Dragon taps a nonland permanent and holds it down through its controller's next untap step, so a board of two or three Dragons can pin an opponent's blockers, mana rocks, and a threat all in the same combat, and keep them pinned into the following turn. The body it sits on (5/6, flying, vigilance) means the attack costs nothing defensively; Ojutai swings and still stands back to block, so the tap-down accumulates without ever lowering your own guard. That vigilance is the quiet engine here: most "tap when this attacks" creatures force a choice between pressure and protection, and this one refuses the trade. The design lineage runs through Dragonlord-era white-blue control, where the win condition was a single resilient flyer that ground the opponent out rather than racing them; Ojutai's version of grinding is denying untaps, turning every combat into a one-sided Sleep that targets whatever matters most. The catch is that it leads from the front: the lock only fires when a Dragon attacks, so the card asks for an aggressive posture from colors that historically prefer to sit back, and it wants a second Dragon in the air before the tap-down becomes a stranglehold rather than a tempo nudge.

Ojutai, Soul of Winter (c17)
C17 · #187rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.48
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying, vigilance Whenever a Dragon you control attacks, tap target nonland permanent an opponent controls. That permanent doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
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
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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