Scroll of Isildur
Blue has always stolen with a lease rather than a purchase, and this Saga formalizes the idiom across its full three-chapter arc: the turn it enters, then the two draw steps that follow. Chapter I hands you an artifact for exactly as long as the enchantment stays on the battlefield, the same durational grip that Sower of Temptation and Vedalken Shackles use: not the red Threaten model that lends a body for a turn, but a conditional hold that unwinds the instant the thing doing the stealing leaves. The catch is the fixed clock. This Saga sacrifices after its third chapter, so whatever you take is always on loan, and the loan is priced against a payoff still coming. That payoff lives in the interplay of chapters II and III. The stun counters from chapter II do double work: they hold creatures tapped through their controller's untap step, and a tapped opposing creature is precisely what chapter III counts one turn later when it draws. The card is quietly asking you to aim chapter II at opponents rather than tap down your own board, converting a tempo swing into a refill on the very next draw step. The Ring's temptation riding on chapter I folds an entire mono-mechanic subsystem onto a piece already juggling theft, control, and card advantage: a reminder that the temptation clause was built to bolt onto almost anything, including a Saga with no spare room to give.
