Venarian Gold

Enchantment - Aura, XUU (2)
Enchant creature
Venarian Gold comes into play with X sleep counters on it.
When Venarian Gold comes into play, tap enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step if Venarian Gold has a sleep counter on it.
At the beginning of the upkeep of enchanted creature's controller, remove a sleep counter from Venarian Gold.¹
Illus. Daniel Gelon

Crystal Keep Rulings Summaries

• Once all the counters are gone, it just sits there as an inert enchantment. [bethmo 1994/06/17]
• If the enchantment is moved with Enchantment Alteration, the number of counters on Venarian Gold does not change. [D'Angelo 1998/05/04]
• Extended tournaments (see Rule 803) have always banned this card.
• Note - Also see Aura, Rule G1.30.
• Note - Also see X Costs, Rule G24.1.
• Note - This card was of type "Enchant Creature" until Oracle 2005/08/01.

Format Legality	Legal in Vintage, Legacy Banned in Extended, Standard
Printings (1/2)	Legends (Common)