Watery Grasp

Oracle Text

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
Waterbend {5}: Enchanted creature's owner shuffles it into their library. (While paying a waterbend cost, you can tap your artifacts and creatures to help. Each one pays for {1}.)

Card Details

-/-Power / Toughness

UMana Cost

1Prints

Set

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Character Background

Watery Grasp is a classic blue tempo tool that plays like a sticky tide: for a single mana, it can lock down a key attacker or utility creature by preventing it from untapping, buying you time to develop. In control decks, that alone is valuable as a cheap answer to creatures that lack enter-the-battlefield value; against aggressive strategies, it can blank their best threat for multiple turns while you stabilize. The waterbend {5} mode adds a late-game finisher, letting you eventually sweep the enchanted creature away by shuffling it into its owner’s library, which is especially punishing against decks built around one powerful threat or recursion-light game plans. Because waterbend can be paid with tapped artifacts and creatures, this card pairs well with token makers, cheap mana rocks, and any list that can flood the board without spending much mana. It’s an efficient control enchantment that scales from nuisance to removal.

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