Tax Taker

Taxing effects have always been half a card: Ghostly Prison, Propaganda, and Mana Tithe make an opponent pay, but the payment vanishes into the void, converting their tempo into nothing you can spend. This design takes the other side of that transaction. Every extra mana an opponent pumps into a taxed spell or permanent comes back as an equivalent stack of Treasure, so the wall you build to slow them down doubles as your own ramp. It formalizes a keyword-style relationship with the whole family of tax cards (Esper Sentinel, Ghostly Prison, and Mana Tithe are called out on the card itself), rewarding a player already committed to that plan rather than asking them to change it. The 1/2 body is beside the point; the value is the conversion rate, which scales with how expensive a tax you can stack on top of it. Stack two Propaganda-style effects and every attacker becomes a Treasure printer. The clever part is the symmetry-breaking: taxes hurt precisely because paying them is dead value, and this quietly turns the opponent's dead value into your live mana. The card only functions surrounded by other cards, but it is honest about that; the reminder text practically hands you the deckbuilding brief.