Skip to content
    Community

    Martial Impetus

    Enchantment — Aura

    Martial Impetus

    Illustrated by Aaron Miller

    EDHREC Rank #3,793
    Enchant creature Enchanted creature gets +1/+1 and is goaded. (It attacks each combat if able and attacks a player other than you if able.) Whenever enchanted creature attacks, each other creature that's attacking one of your opponents gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

    Rulings (5)

    Being goaded isn't an ability the creature has. Once it's been goaded, it must attack as detailed above even if it loses all abilities.

    Jun 30, 2023

    If a creature you control has been goaded by multiple opponents, it must attack one of your opponents that hasn't goaded it, as that fulfills the maximum number of goad requirements. If a creature you control has been goaded by each of your opponents, the creature must attack an opponent (rather than a planeswalker or battle), but you choose which opponent it attacks.

    Jun 30, 2023

    If, during a player's declare attackers step, a creature that player controls that's been goaded is tapped, is affected by a spell or ability that says it can't attack, or hasn't been under that player's control continuously since the turn began (and doesn't have haste), then it doesn't attack. If there's a cost associated with having a creature attack a player, its controller isn't forced to pay that cost, so it doesn't have to attack that player.

    Jun 30, 2023

    Legality

    Formats by platform

    Commander

    Competitive

    Printings (7)

    Martial Impetus — Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
    SOC#156$0.29
    Secrets of Strixhaven Commander
    Martial Impetus — Bloomburrow Commander
    BLC#108$0.20
    Bloomburrow Commander