Whipgrass Entangler

Tax effects usually scale with what you control, but this one scales with the whole board: each activation locks a single attacker or blocker behind a toll that grows by for every Cleric in play, regardless of whose it is. In a deck stacked with Clerics, that toll climbs fast enough to read as a soft Pacifism you can re-aim every turn for . And because the ability is targeted, an opponent's own Clerics work against them: aim it at their attacker and their tribe inflates the price they have to pay to swing. The contingency that defines the card runs the other way. The Entangler is itself a Cleric, so a single copy on an otherwise tribe-empty board sets a flat attack-or-block tax that anyone can pay through, a marginal speed bump on a stick; the floor isn't zero only because the creature paying for it is also doing the counting. The 1/3 body matters less for surviving combat (it trades down to anything with three power) than for being hard to kill cheaply and patient enough to keep reapplying the toll turn after turn. This is the narrow creature-type payoff in its purest form, hostage to the deck around it. Outside a Cleric shell it is a repeatable nuisance; inside one it turns the type line itself into a recurring price of admission to combat, a price that worsens the deeper into the tribe both players commit.