Tax Collector

Assassin's Creed (ACR) #9 · Uncommon · Creature — Human Advisor

Mana cost: {1}{W}

When this creature enters, choose one —
• Tax — Until your next turn, spells your opponents cast cost {1} more to cast.
• Arrest — Detain target creature an opponent controls. (Until your next turn, that creature can't attack or block and its activated abilities can't be activated.)

Power/toughness 2/2 · Illustrated by Miklós Ligeti · Released July 5, 2024

Prices

Nonfoil price since August 29, 2026: up $0.04 USD (13.3%) to $0.34 USD; low $0.29 USD, high $0.36 USD.

Printings

  1. Assassin's Creed #182 (ACR) · Uncommon · 2024 · $5.59 USD etched
  2. Assassin's Creed #9 (this printing) · Uncommon · 2024 · $0.34 USD

Legality

Rulings

  1. 2024-07-05 · wotc — Activated abilities include a colon and are written in the form “[cost]: [effect].” No one can activate any activated abilities, including mana abilities, of a detained permanent.
  2. 2024-07-05 · wotc — If a noncreature permanent is detained and later turns into a creature, it won’t be able to attack or block.
  3. 2024-07-05 · wotc — The static abilities of a detained permanent still apply. The triggered abilities of a detained permanent can still trigger.
  4. 2024-07-05 · wotc — When a player leaves a multiplayer game, any continuous effects with durations that last until that player’s next turn or until a specific point in that turn (such as the effect of being detained) will last until that turn would have begun. They neither expire immediately nor last indefinitely.
  5. 2024-07-05 · wotc — If a creature is already attacking or blocking when it’s detained, it won’t be removed from combat. It will continue to attack or block.
  6. 2024-07-05 · wotc — If a permanent’s activated ability is on the stack when that permanent is detained, the ability will be unaffected.

Played in these commander decks

  1. Satya, Aetherflux Genius · in 6% of 48 decks

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