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Rent Is Due

EnchantmentWhite mana

A repeatable draw that charges rent every turn: keep two creatures or Treasures available at your end step or the enchantment falls apart. The tap cost is what pays for the card, and it bites harder than it reads. Tapping two creatures on your own end step means the bodies you spent for the card are not there to block on the opponent's turn, so every card drawn is bought with defensive posture. Treasures are the escape hatch: tap two of them to satisfy the trigger and the creatures stay up. Because tapping a Treasure does not spend it (it simply untaps with the rest of your permanents next turn), a board with a couple of idle Treasures can feed the rent indefinitely at no real cost, which is where the card quietly becomes an engine rather than a tax. And because the trigger reads "you may," letting the enchantment die is a decision rather than a penalty: when the board no longer supports the rent, you walk away on your own terms instead of being locked into feeding it. That framing (draw as long as you can pay, quit when you cannot) is the honest version of a card-advantage enchantment, an effect white has historically struggled to price without either overshooting or gating the draw behind conditions it rarely meets. Here the gate is simply a warm board, and the design lives on the tension between wanting permanents tapped for value and wanting them untapped for the fight.

Rent Is Due (pspm)
PSPM · #11srare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

At the beginning of your end step, you may tap two untapped creatures and/or Treasures you control. If you do, draw a card. Otherwise, sacrifice this enchantment.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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