Card

Parasitic Impetus

Enchantment — Aura


Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and is goaded. (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.)
Whenever enchanted creature attacks, its controller loses 2 life and you gain 2 life.


  Ravnica: Clue Edition (CLU)
#118, Common

Illustrated by: Mila Pesic

Not Legal Alchemy BO1
Not Legal Standard BO1
Not Legal Brawl
Not Legal Explorer BO1
Not Legal Historic BO1
Not Legal Historic Brawl
Not Legal Modern
Not Legal Pioneer
Not Legal Traditional Standard
Not Legal Timeless BO1
Not Legal Traditional Alchemy
Not Legal Traditional Explorer
Not Legal Traditional Historic
Not Legal Traditional Timeless

Rulings

  • 2020-04-17
    Parasitic Impetus causes you to gain life, not the attacking creature's controller.
  • 2020-04-17
    If you are the attacking creature's controller, you lose 2 life and gain 2 life. You won't lose the game if your life total is 0 in between these two events.
  • 2020-04-17
    If a goaded creature can't attack for any reason (such as being tapped or having come under that player's control that turn), then it doesn't attack. If there's a cost associated with having it attack, its controller isn't forced to pay that cost, so it doesn't have to attack in that case either.
  • 2020-04-17
    If a goaded creature doesn't meet any of the above exceptions and can attack, it must attack a player other than a player who goaded it if able. It the creature can't attack any of those players but could otherwise attack, it must attack an opposing planeswalker (controlled by any opponent) or a player who goaded it.
  • 2020-04-17
    Attacking with a goaded creature doesn't cause it to stop being goaded.
  • 2020-04-17
    Being goaded more than once by the same player is redundant.
  • 2020-04-17
    If you goad a creature you control, it must attack and it must attack a player rather than a planeswalker.
  • 2020-04-17
    If a creature you control has been goaded by multiple opponents, it must attack one of your opponents who hasn't goaded it. If a creature you control has been goaded by each of your opponents, you choose which opponent it attacks.
USD Non-foil
EUR Non-foil