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Tangle Wire, Artifact, ontworpen door Glen Angus voor het eerst uitgebracht in februari 2000 in de set Nemesis and was printed exactly in 4 different ways. It see play in 2 formats: Premodern en Commander. It's currently being selled by the minimum price of € 19,59.

Tangle Wire is best in artifact-based prison or “Stax” decks—especially Vintage Workshop-style decks—that can deploy mana rocks, expendable creatures, or permanents with tap/untap synergies while constraining opponents more severely than themselves; it is also strongest alongside cards such as Mishra’s Factory, Smokestack, Crucible of Worlds, or effects that untap permanents. Its temporary four-turn lifespan is a major drawback, and in Commander its symmetrical effect usually becomes less attractive because you must hinder several opponents while giving them time to recover. There is no universally better replacement: Winter Orb or Static Orb provide longer-lasting mana denial, Sphere of Resistance and Thorn of Amethyst tax spells more directly, and Smokestack offers stronger long-term attrition, but Tangle Wire is cheaper and creates an immediate, flexible tempo swing. It should see play in dedicated competitive artifact-prison decks and some Cube environments, but generally not in or