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Tangle

Instant1 generic manaGreen mana

Most fog effects buy you a turn and ask nothing of your opponent in return: Fog, Darkness, the whole lineage of "prevent all combat damage" tricks resolve, the attackers go home, and the board resets to where it started. The second clause here is what changes the math. By keeping every attacking creature tapped through its controller's next untap step, this punishes the swing rather than merely surviving it: an opponent who commits a full attack into it spends not one turn but two, the turn of the blank attack and the turn their creatures sit sideways unable to block or attack again. That window is exactly what a green ramp or combo deck wants, because the price of a wide attack becomes a defenseless following turn. The cost is borne entirely by the attacker, which makes it a tempo swing dressed as a defensive spell. The friction is that it does nothing against a player who simply doesn't attack into it, and the tapped-down clause only bites creatures that actually swung; a held-back board walks away clean. As a piece of green's anti-aggression toolkit, it sits a notch above the pure fogs precisely because it converts a defended turn into a counterattack, turning the act of attacking into a liability for the aggressor.

Tangle (mar)
MAR · #38mythic
Pricing
Normal: $6.45
Foil: $8.24
Oracle Text

Rules text

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn. Each attacking creature doesn't untap during its controller's next untap step.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
N/A
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
Legal
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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