---
name: "Parasitic Impetus"
mana_cost: "{2}{B}"
cmc: 3
type_line: "Enchantment — Aura"
colors: []
color_identity: ["B"]
keywords: ["Goad", "Enchant"]
set: "CLB"
set_name: "Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate"
collector_number: "140"
rarity: "common"
artist: "Mila Pesic"
oracle_id: "ff3de07d-86c3-49e1-9de0-97c85301ff93"
canonical_url: "https://avascry.com/printing/parasitic-impetus-clb"
legalities:
  commander: "legal"
  standard: "not_legal"
  modern: "not_legal"
  pioneer: "not_legal"
  legacy: "legal"
  vintage: "legal"
  pauper: "legal"
  penny: "not_legal"
---

# Parasitic Impetus
- **Mana Cost:** `{2}{B}` (CMC: 3)
- **Type:** Enchantment — Aura
- **Keywords:** Goad, Enchant

## Oracle Text
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.

## Top 4096-Dim Neural Synergies
1. [Coercive Impetus](/printing/coercive-impetus-soc.md) — Enchantment — Aura
2. [Martial Impetus](/printing/martial-impetus-soc.md) — Enchantment — Aura
3. [Predatory Impetus](/printing/predatory-impetus-clu.md) — Enchantment — Aura
4. [Ghoulish Impetus](/printing/ghoulish-impetus-soc.md) — Enchantment — Aura
5. [Shiny Impetus](/printing/shiny-impetus-tdc.md) — Enchantment — Aura
6. [Psychic Impetus](/printing/psychic-impetus-clu.md) — Enchantment — Aura

## Printing Details
- **Set:** Commander Legends: Battle for Baldur's Gate (CLB) #140
- **Rarity:** Common
- **Artist:** Mila Pesic
- **Total Printings:** 5 across all historical editions

## Format Legalities
Commander: `legal` | Standard: `not_legal` | Modern: `not_legal` | Pioneer: `not_legal` | Legacy: `legal` | Vintage: `legal` | Pauper: `legal` | Penny: `not_legal`

## Official Rulings
- *(2020-04-17)* 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.
- *(2020-04-17)* Parasitic Impetus causes you to gain life, not the attacking creature's controller.
- *(2023-06-30)* 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.
- *(2023-06-30)* 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.
- *(2023-06-30)* 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.
- *(2023-06-30)* 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.