| Ritual of Steel |   |
![[Ritual of Steel]](../Images/Ritual_of_Steel.gif) |
| Enchant Creature |  |
| Draw a card at the beginning of the upkeep of the turn after Ritual of Steel comes into play. Enchanted creature gets +0/+2.
"Our soldiers are blessed with lizard scales as hard and cold as steel."
--Sidar Jabari |
Illus. Mark Poole
©1996 Wizards of the Coast, Inc.
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This creature enchantment provides a reasonable defense, and has the added advantage of being a "cantrip," a card that replaces itself. Most spells have two costs: the mana requirement and the need to use the card itself. If Incinerate cost ![[Red]](images/red_mana.gif) , it would not be very good. But giving a permanent the ability ": deal 3 damage" would be awesome. Why? Because the latter doesn't cost a card each time you want to play the effect. Cantrips, like Ritual of Steel, don't cost you a card. They just cost mana and time. But that's another issue.
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