Bonds of Quicksilver
Enchantment — Aura
Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.)
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature doesn't untap during its controller's untap step.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Scars of Mirrodin
- Price
- $0.07
- EDHREC rank
- #26702
Bonds of Quicksilver taps a creature and locks it down for as long as the Aura stays attached — solid stax effect, but four mana for an enchantment that does nothing the turn it enters and dies to any enchantment removal is a steep ask. There are cheaper, more resilient ways to neutralize a threat in blue.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Bonds of Quicksilver is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it sees essentially no play in any of them. In Commander, four mana to tap one creature is tempo-negative — you want your removal to answer threats permanently, not babysit them until someone answers your Aura. Pauper is the only format where the cost floor is low enough that Bonds of Quicksilver could see fringe play, but even there Sleep or Narcolepsy outperform it in nearly every shell. Across competitive formats, it's simply outclassed.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.07 bulk tier
At $0.07, Bonds of Quicksilver is deep bulk — the kind of card that sits in a common box at the bottom of a collection binder. The price reflects its playability: there's no demand driver that would move it off the floor.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.