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Scriv, the Obligator

Legendary Creature — Inkling Bird2 generic manaWhite manaBlack mana

The Aura you hang on an opponent's creature is not a curse so much as a redirection of aggression. Contract enchants an opponent's creature and gives its controller a choice they never wanted: swing at someone else for a +2/+0 bonus, or swing at you and bleed for it. In a multiplayer game that reads as a diplomatic weapon, a way to point another player's board across the table and tax any attack that comes back your way. The effect borrows the psychology of goad without the compulsion: nobody is forced to attack, but the creature's owner is nudged, turn after turn, toward becoming someone else's problem. The 2/3 flying deathtouch body is the enforcement mechanism. Deathtouch on a flyer means it trades up against anything that decides to come for it directly, so the two-life drain is not the only cost of ignoring the contract. What makes the engine repeat is that the token comes on both the enter and the attack trigger, so a version that keeps swinging keeps papering the table with obligations, spreading contracts across multiple opponents until every combat step routes life loss or bonus damage away from you. It is a political value piece built for a table of three or more, where the ability to editorialize who attacks whom is worth more than a clean 2/3's rate.

Scriv, the Obligator (soc)
SOC · #9mythic
Pricing
Normal: $1.36
Foil: $0.79
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying, deathtouch Whenever Scriv enters or attacks, create a white Aura enchantment token named Contract attached to target creature an opponent controls. The token has enchant creature and "Whenever enchanted creature attacks, it gets +2/+0 until end of turn if it's attacking one of your opponents. Otherwise, its controller loses 2 life."
Legalities

Format Status

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