Tax Collector
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
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What it does
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.)
Rulings
6 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2024-07-05
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.
- 2024-07-05
If a noncreature permanent is detained and later turns into a creature, it won’t be able to attack or block.
- 2024-07-05
The static abilities of a detained permanent still apply. The triggered abilities of a detained permanent can still trigger.
- 2024-07-05
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.
- 2024-07-05
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.
- 2024-07-05
If a permanent’s activated ability is on the stack when that permanent is detained, the ability will be unaffected.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Tax Collector, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ezio Auditore da Firenze | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Five-Color 1 deck
Every version of Tax Collector
2 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them.
Etched
- Etched
- $5.57
- Normal
- $0.32
- Foil
- $0.35
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Tax Collector. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.
Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.
