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Tangle Wire
Oracle Text
Fading 4 (This artifact enters with four fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player taps an untapped artifact, creature, or land they control for each fade counter on this artifact.
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Tangle Wire is a classic tempo prison piece, ideal for decks that want to seize a narrow lead and turn it into a suffocating advantage. By tapping down a growing number of permanents on each upkeep, it taxes lands, creatures, and utility artifacts alike, buying the pilot several turns to deploy threats while opponents struggle to develop. The fade counters make its window short, but that’s exactly the point: you want the Wire on the table when you’re ahead and able to capitalize immediately. It shines in low-curve aggro-control shells, artifact-heavy builds, and stax-style strategies that can exploit asymmetry. A strong synergy is with cards that untap or dodge tapping costs, such as Winter Orb-style plans, token producers, or permanents you don’t mind sacrificing for tempo. In practice, cast it after establishing pressure, then use your opponent’s slowed board to close the game before the Wire fades away.
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Character Background
Tangle Wire is a classic tempo prison piece, ideal for decks that want to seize a narrow lead and turn it into a suffocating advantage. By tapping down a growing number of permanents on each upkeep, it taxes lands, creatures, and utility artifacts alike, buying the pilot several turns to deploy threats while opponents struggle to develop. The fade counters make its window short, but that’s exactly the point: you want the Wire on the table when you’re ahead and able to capitalize immediately. It shines in low-curve aggro-control shells, artifact-heavy builds, and stax-style strategies that can exploit asymmetry. A strong synergy is with cards that untap or dodge tapping costs, such as Winter Orb-style plans, token producers, or permanents you don’t mind sacrificing for tempo. In practice, cast it after establishing pressure, then use your opponent’s slowed board to close the game before the Wire fades away.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-21 16:10:44 UTC