Rishadan Cutpurse

The whole Rishadan family runs on the same engine: a tax that demands payment or extracts a sacrifice, applied to lands with Rishadan Port and here to permanents at large. The Cutpurse is the cheapest, broadest swing of that idea, and the design tension lives entirely in who chooses. Each opponent picks what to sacrifice and decides whether to pay; the controller never gets to point at the troublesome permanent. That means the effect functions less like removal and more like a small recurring tariff: against a developed board it pulls a token or a tapped-out land, against an opponent who keeps a single mana up it does nothing at all. Where the Cutpurse earns its keep is repetition. The trigger keys off entering the battlefield, so the body is almost incidental: a 1/1 that wants to be blinked, bounced, and replayed, turning a one-time edict into a tempo grind that bleeds resources a mana at a time. That blueprint, an enters-the-battlefield disruption stapled to a fragile body built for recursion, became a staple of blue tempo and value decks long after Mercadian Masques faded, and the Cutpurse is one of the earliest clean examples of it. The Rishadan name signals the through-line: this is the small-creature wing of a set-defining theme about making opponents pay for the privilege of keeping their stuff.