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Parasitic Impetus

First printed in Commander 2020 (2020)

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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.

Illustrated by
Mila Pesic

Legality

Rulings (7)

  • 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.
  • Parasitic Impetus causes you to gain life, not the attacking creature's controller.
  • 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.
  • If the creature doesn't meet any of the above exceptions and can attack, it must attack a player other than the controller of the spell or ability that goaded it if able. If the creature can't attack any of those players but could otherwise attack, it must attack a planeswalker an opponent controls, a battle an opponent controls, or a player who goaded it.
  • Attacking with a goaded creature doesn't cause it to stop being goaded. If there is an additional combat phase that turn, or if another player gains control of it before it stops being goaded, it must attack again if able.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Prices

MTGO price: 0.57 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).

Commander In 3 of 6550 decks (0.0%), most in Killian, Decisive Mentor

Share of decks
0.0%
= vs previous 30 days
2026-08-17: 0.0% 2026-08-24: 0.1% 2026-08-31: 0.1% 2026-09-07: 0.0% 2026-09-14: 0.1% 2026-09-21: 0.0% 2026-09-28: 0.0% 2026-10-05: 0.2% 2026-10-12: 0.0% 2026-10-19: 0.0% 2026-10-26: 0.1%
Weekly, last 90 days
Decks
3
3 main, 0 sideboard
Avg. copies
1.0
in the main deck
Win rate
–
1 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype Meta Play it
Killian, Decisive Mentor 0.1% 75%

Played together with

Card Together Lift
Martial Impetus100%2205.0
Scriv, the Obligator100%2205.0
Herald of Amity100%2205.0
Hateful Eidolon100%2205.0
Eriette of the Charmed Apple100%2205.0
Ghoulish Impetus100%1653.8
Eidolon of Countless Battles100%1653.8
Eclipsed Steppe100%1653.8
Shielded by Faith100%1653.8
Killian, Decisive Mentor100%1653.8

Best win rate

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