Price$60.05 – $146.08
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Enchantment
LegalGame Changer Salt 2.73Card DrawRank #41
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays 
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Why is this card good?
The most efficient repeatable card advantage engine in blue. In a four-player game, opponents cast dozens of spells per turn cycle, and the "tax" is a brutal Catch-22: either they fund your hand or they pay a tax that compounds across the game. You routinely draw 5-15+ cards off a single investment, which is absurd value no other card matches at the cost.
Who wants it: basically any deck with blue. It's premium in control, spellslinger, and any midrange-to-grindy strategy that wants to bury the table in resources. Combo decks love it as a cheap engine that snowballs into a payoff.
Caveats: it's a "Game Changer," so it pushes your deck toward higher brackets — don't slot it into a casual bracket-2 build. It also paints a target on you and demands you actually use the cards you draw. At well-funded tables, opponents simply pay the , blunting it.
Still, at #41 on EDHREC for good reason — near-auto-include in serious blue decks.
"tax" is a brutal Catch-22: either they fund your hand or they pay a tax that compounds across the game. You routinely draw 5-15+ cards off a single investment, which is absurd value no other card matches at the cost.
Who wants it: basically any deck with blue. It's premium in control, spellslinger, and any midrange-to-grindy strategy that wants to bury the table in resources. Combo decks love it as a cheap engine that snowballs into a payoff.
Caveats: it's a "Game Changer," so it pushes your deck toward higher brackets — don't slot it into a casual bracket-2 build. It also paints a target on you and demands you actually use the cards you draw. At well-funded tables, opponents simply pay the , blunting it.
Still, at #41 on EDHREC for good reason — near-auto-include in serious blue decks.Related cards
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