Quiet Rule, Loud Results
Blind Obedience is a compact lock piece that bends combat and resource flows to your advantage. The card reads cleanly: for {1}{W} you get Extort plus a taxing effect that forces opponents to bring artifacts and creatures into play tapped. In practice the card turns small plays into tempo losses for your opponent while letting your life total creep upward whenever you cast spells and pay the extort cost.
On Ravnica the guilds judge efficiency over spectacle and Blind Obedience fits that philosophy. Use it in control lists that want to slow token strategies or in attrition builds that leverage incremental life gain. The foil treatment and the scene of a hooded magistrate commanding a prostrate supplicant make the card feel like a civic edict. It is reliable, plays well with removal and spot answers, and rewards careful timing.
Card Details:
- Mana Cost – {1}{W}
- Card Type – Enchantment
- Subtypes –
- Card Text / Rules Text (Printed) – Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.) Artifacts and creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.
- Power / Toughness –
- Loyalty –