TYPE
Creature — Human Advisor

ABILITY
When Tax Collector 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

FLAVOR TEXT
Few things in this world are as certain.

ILLUSTRATOR
Miklós Ligeti

LEGALITIES
Standard Future Historic Timeless Gladiator Pioneer Explorer Modern Legacy Pauper Vintage Penny Commander Oathbreaker Standardbrawl Brawl Alchemy Paupercommander Duel Oldschool Premodern Predh

LANGUAGES
DE EN ES FR IT JP ZH-CN

RULINGS

• 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.