War Tax
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This printing
SetMMQ
Collector #113
Released1999-10-04
Rarityuncommon
ArtistGreg Hildebrandt & Tim Hildebrandt
LanguageEN
Layoutnormal
ScryfallOpen ↗

War Tax

UncommonColour IDMV 3
Enchantment
: This turn, creatures can't attack unless their controller pays for each attacking creature they control.
Card capabilities
Enchantment
Derived deterministically from card types, Oracle text and keywords. Not a strategic evaluation.
Format legality
Other printings
This is the only English printing.
Rulings (3)
wotc1 Feb 2007
In the Two-Headed Giant format, you still only have to pay once per creature.
wotc4 Oct 2004
The ability only applies to attackers declared after it resolves. It will not add costs to any attackers already announced.
wotc4 Oct 2004
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).