Uphill Battle

Tempo as a static enchantment: every creature an opponent casts arrives unable to attack, block, or tap for an ability the turn it lands. The design idea is to tax the defender's clock by one full turn on every body they deploy, which bites hardest against the very decks this kind of card was built to slow: midrange and control boards that want their fresh creatures to hold the line immediately. Where a removal spell answers one threat, this answers the timing of all of them, indefinitely, for once. The asymmetry is what defines it: creatures your opponents play arrive tapped, never yours, marking it as a dedicated aggressive support piece rather than a symmetric lock. But the enchantment generates no card advantage and no pressure of its own; it only pries open windows, and the burden falls on you to bring the offense that walks through them. It predates the cleaner versions of the entering-tapped tax that later sets would print in white and blue, a red enchantment from an early era that tried to hand beatdown a sustained edge without resorting to burn. The bargain is honest: the lock is worth exactly as much as the army standing behind it.