Squeeze

Most tax effects spread the toll across everything: a flat surcharge on each spell, or a wall against the first cast every turn. This one zeroes in on a single card type and leaves the rest of the cardpool untouched. The asymmetry is the entire pitch. A deck built on board wipes, big draw spells, and tutors that happen to be sorceries suddenly pays three extra mana per cast, while an instant-and-creature opponent can barely tell the enchantment is on the table. That narrowness is also the design's restraint. A blanket spell tax warps formats and draws scrutiny; pointing the same surcharge at one slice of the card pool keeps the effect closer to a nuisance than a lock, because the punished player can sidestep it by not leaning on sorceries in the first place. It belongs with the type-taxers rather than the color- or speed-taxers like Thalia, Guardian of Thraben: a standing surcharge that singles out one card type and reshapes how an opponent is permitted to spend a turn, rather than slowing a whole spell category. The catch is structural. Sorceries are precisely the card type most decks can route around, so the surcharge rarely bites the opponents who most need slowing. It survives as a clean expression of tax-as-enchantment, a hate piece without a clear target to hate.