War Tax
- Mana cost
- {2}{U}
- Type
- Enchantment
- Set
- Mercadian Masques #113 (uncommon)
- Price
- $1.36 USD
{X}{U}: This turn, creatures can't attack unless their controller pays {X} for each attacking creature they control.
War Tax has 1 printing, first in Mercadian Masques (1999). EDHREC ranks it #15,788 among Commander cards. It appears most in Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer decks (112 on EDHREC). It has 3 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Commanders that run War Tax most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer: 112 decks
- Angus Mackenzie: 97 decks
- Ramirez DePietro: 9 decks
- Stature, Size Shifter: 3 decks
- Trelane, Squire of Gothos: 1 decks
- Kid Loki
- Zhou Yu, Chief Commander
Often played with War Tax
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : You can choose X=0. This doesn’t have an effect most of the time, but it does mean that creatures can’t attack unless the controller chooses to pay the cost (a cost of zero is not automatically paid, so the controller can choose to not pay).
- : The ability only applies to attackers declared after it resolves. It will not add costs to any attackers already announced.
- : In the Two-Headed Giant format, you still only have to pay once per creature.