mtg pay life draw cards Cruel Bargain · Portal (POR) #86 · Scryfall Magic: The Gathering Search Rules Text: Pay, life, 520

This unassuming two-mana enchantment not only offers the same baseline effect as Felothar, but with the added ability to pay three mana and give creatures you control +0/+1 until end of turn thus making their toughness even larger and inching you closer to Betors biggest payoff of draining each opponent for half their life total, if creatures you control have total toughness 40 or greater

They just get punished for doing so

The artifact sits around for a bit before craft comes online

It stops your opponent from playing spells with even CMCs, and if they control any creatures with even CMCs, then they can't block (and your opponent wouldn't be able to play any more of them anyway)

Land Color tag templates(None) Vivid Marsh This land enters tapped with two charge counters on it