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Tanglesap

Instant1 generic manaGreen mana

The Fog with a loophole written into it, and the loophole is the whole strategic point. Where a plain Fog stops every point of combat damage, this one carves out an exception for the keyword that exists specifically to ignore blockers: a trample creature still connects, and the green deck holding this card is usually the one with the tramplers. That makes it a one-sided combat blank in a fight between two creature decks, both of which are swinging in, where only the opponent's nontrample attackers fizzle. The asymmetry is the design: instead of buying a turn for both players the way a true Fog does, it buys a turn for the side already built to push damage through. It is a quietly aggressive card dressed as a defensive one, the kind of damage-prevention effect that rewards the attacker rather than the defender. The cost is that it does nothing against the very creatures a green ramp shell is most likely to be racing: a board full of trample threats walks through it untouched, so the card's value swings hard on what is actually attacking. As a piece of combat math, it is a sharper tool than the generic turn-buyer it resembles, with the trample carve-out doing the work of turning a symmetrical stall into a tempo swing in green's favor.

Tanglesap (zen)
ZEN · #186common
Pricing
Normal: $0.07
Foil: $0.56
Oracle Text

Rules text

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt this turn by creatures without trample.
Legalities

Format Status

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