Pillory of the Sleepless
Pacifism with a tax attached. The white half does the familiar work: an enchanted creature locked out of both attacking and blocking is, for combat purposes, gone without ever leaving the battlefield. What the black splash buys is the recurring upkeep drain, which closes the loop that pure Pacifism-style effects leave open. A creature shut off from combat is still a body that can carry equipment, tap for mana, or sit there as a saboteur threat the moment the Aura comes off; the life loss turns the lock into a clock, so the answer keeps applying pressure even after the threat has gone inert. It is removal that does not remove, which means it sidesteps regeneration, indestructibility, and any death trigger the opponent might be banking on, while still demanding an enchantment-removal answer the way no targeted kill spell does. The cost of that durability is the cost every Aura pays: a two-for-one if the creature is exiled, bounced, or sacrificed in response, and dead weight against a creatureless board. That fragility is what stops a strictly-upgraded Pacifism from being free, and it explains why the design has stayed a conditional answer rather than a default one across the formats where it is legal: the drain rewards you for landing it early, but the Aura's vulnerability punishes you for leaning on it as your only plan.
