Power Taint

Power Taint

Enchantment — Aura

Mana cost: {1}{U}

How we read this card

Enchant enchantment
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted enchantment's controller, that player loses 2 life unless they pay {2}.

triggered — makes each opponent lose 2 life

Cycling {2}

Causes: make a player lose life.

Cares about: an upkeep.

Works well with

an enchantment is discarded — 45 cards in the game can cause this (Power Taint is one).

When Power Taint makes a player discard a card:

  1. Bone Miser — draws you 1 card
  2. Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer — brings a card back
  3. Conspiracy Theorist — brings a card back
  4. Veronica, Dissident Scribe — makes a token
  5. Green Goblin, Nemesis — puts a counter on a Goblin
  6. Surly Badgersaur — deals damage

1 other card cares about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an Aura enters the battlefield — 1,257 cards in the game can cause this (Power Taint is one).

When Power Taint enters:

  1. Tanglespan Lookout — draws you 1 card
  2. Chishiro, the Shattered Blade — makes a token

4 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card is discarded — 2,042 cards in the game can cause this (Power Taint is one).

When Power Taint makes a player discard a card:

  1. Ivora, Insatiable Heir — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  2. Cool but Rude — deals 2 damage
  3. Containment Construct — brings a card back
  4. Moonstone, Harsh Mistress — brings a card back
  5. Lazotep Chancellor — puts 2 counters on a Zombie or Army
  6. Magmakin Artillerist — deals that much damage
  7. Inti, Seneschal of the Sun — exiles a card from your library
  8. Pitchstone Wall — sacrifices itself
  9. Currency Converter — exiles it
  10. Hostile Investigator — triggers

51 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

life is lost — 3,160 cards in the game can cause this (Power Taint is one).

When Power Taint makes a player lose life:

  1. Far Fortune, End Boss — raises your speed
  2. Zahur, Glory's Past — raises your speed
  3. Mendicant Core, Guidelight — raises your speed
  4. Aether Syphon — raises your speed
  5. Vnwxt, Verbose Host — raises your speed
  6. Embalmed Ascendant — raises your speed
  7. Slick Imitator — raises your speed
  8. Oath of Lim-Dûl — sacrifices an enchantment
  9. Marina Vendrell's Grimoire — triggers
  10. Lich's Mastery — triggers

46 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

an enchantment is cast — 3,673 cards in the game can cause this (Power Taint is one).

When Power Taint is cast:

  1. Hallowed Haunting — makes a token
  2. Daxos the Returned — puts a counter on a permanent
  3. Tatsunari, Toad Rider — makes a token
  4. Sythis, Harvest's Hand — gains you 1 life
  5. Sigil of the Empty Throne — makes a token
  6. Dawnhart Geist — gains you 2 life
  7. Herald of the Pantheon — gains you 1 life
  8. Kami of Transience — puts a +1/+1 counter on itself
  9. Argothian Enchantress — draws you 1 card
  10. Mesa Enchantress — draws you 1 card

255 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a nontoken enchantment enters the battlefield — 3,691 cards in the game can cause this (Power Taint is one).

  1. Historian's Boon — When Power Taint enters, Historian's Boon makes a token

an enchantment enters the battlefield — 3,743 cards in the game can cause this (Power Taint is one).

When Power Taint enters:

  1. Calix, Guided by Fate — puts a counter on a creature
  2. Elvish Archivist — draws you 1 card
  3. Victor, Valgavoth's Seneschal — surveils
  4. Strength from the Fallen — gives +X/+X, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard
  5. Doomwake Giant — shrinks a creature by -1/-1
  6. Cacophony Unleashed — turns something into a creature
  7. Ghostly Dancers — makes a token
  8. Thassa's Devourer — mills a card
  9. Killian, Decisive Mentor — taps a creature
  10. Thoughtrender Lamia — makes an opponent discard a card

67 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card is drawn — 3,815 cards in the game can cause this (Power Taint is one).

When Power Taint makes a player draw a card:

  1. Stark's Ingenuity — puts a counter on a creature
  2. Teferi's Tutelage — mills a card
  3. Temmet, Naktamun's Will — gives +1/+1
  4. Niv-Mizzet, Parun — deals 1 damage
  5. The Locust God — makes a token
  6. Starving Revenant — makes each opponent lose 1 life
  7. Diviner's Wand — gets +1/+1
  8. Ominous Seas — puts a foreshadow counter on itself
  9. Dream Trawler — gets +1/+0

58 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.

a card in a graveyard — 7,589 cards in the game can cause this (Power Taint is one).

Power Taint fills your graveyard toward the:

  1. Locked in the Cemetery — 5 or more cards Locked in the Cemetery needs
  2. Sidequest: Card Collection // Magicked Card — 8 or more cards Sidequest: Card Collection // Magicked Card needs

442 other cards care about it too. These are the ones with the most connections.