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Tractor Beam

Enchantment — Aura2 generic manaBlue manaBlue mana

Control Magic never went away; it just kept getting more expensive and more conditional. This is the version that pays for permanent theft with an untap tax: the enchanted permanent flips to your control, taps on arrival, and then stays down every one of its controller's untap steps. In practice you are stealing a body and simultaneously freezing it, which reads as a wash until you notice the timing asymmetry. It enters tapped, so you cannot swing with the stolen creature the turn you take it, but you also never have to worry about it attacking you back or blocking for its former owner again: it is yours, permanently sidelined as an attacker or blocker unless you can untap it yourself. That makes it less a threat-stealing aura and more a hard answer wearing a theft costume, functionally a two-for-nothing removal spell that happens to leave the corpse under your control. The clause enchanting a Spacecraft as well as a creature marks where this design lives: it is aura-based interaction built for a board where the biggest permanents are not always creatures, and where pulling one off the top of an opponent's plan matters more than what you do with it afterward.

Tractor Beam (eoe)
EOE · #82uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.18
Foil: $0.28
Oracle Text

Rules text

Enchant creature or Spacecraft When this Aura enters, tap enchanted permanent. You control enchanted permanent. Enchanted permanent doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
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
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
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