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Prison Term

Enchantment — Aura1 generic manaWhite manaWhite mana

Most Pacifism-style auras lock down one threat and then sit there, dead once the creature they answer is gone. This one solves that obsolescence with a trigger that lets it hop to each fresh body an opponent commits to the board, so the same three mana keeps neutralizing whatever shows up rather than ossifying onto a single target. The relocation is yours to take or decline: the trigger is a "may," so the new creature is the only legal destination, but you are never forced to move the Aura. That control matters, because it means an opponent cannot bait the lock off a real threat by dropping a token or a chump for it to chase. They can offer a worse target; you simply leave the cage where it is. The clause that does the heavy lifting is the activated-ability lockout. Plain attack-and-block restrictions leave tap abilities, sacrifice outlets, and mana dorks fully online; shutting those down too turns this from a combat tax into a genuine answer for engine creatures and pingers that never needed to swing. The design tension is the whole appeal: stickier than a one-shot removal spell, more flexible than a static lock, with the mobility gated behind your judgment of whether the next thing they play is worse to have free than the thing already caged.

Prison Term (shm)
SHM · #18uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.64
Foil: $5.08
Oracle Text

Rules text

Enchant creature Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated. Whenever a creature an opponent controls enters, you may attach this Aura to that creature.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
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
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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