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Cage of Hands

Enchantment — Aura

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can't attack or block.
{1}{W}: Return this Aura to its owner's hand.

CMC
3
Mana cost
{2}{W}
Color identity
W
Rarity
common
Set
Planechase Anthology
Price
$0.13
EDHREC rank
#16245
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Cage of Hands card art
Cage of Hands locks down a creature for three mana and, unlike most Auras, bounces itself back to your hand whenever you need to move it — that reusability is the whole reason to run it. The combo ceiling with Displacer Kitten turns that bounce trigger into a repeatable engine, which elevates it well above a vanilla pacifism effect.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

In Commander, Cage of Hands earns its slot almost entirely through the Displacer Kitten interaction — without that engine, three mana for a pacifism effect is below the power threshold most tables demand. Pauper is where Cage of Hands is most honestly competitive, since the card pool is shallow enough that reusable removal Auras carry real weight. Legacy and Vintage are non-starters; the effect is too slow and too fragile for those formats. Modern has strictly better options at every point on the curve, so there's no practical case for it there.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$0.13 bulk tier

At $0.13, Cage of Hands is deep bulk — the kind of card you pull from a common box rather than order. The price is stable by default; there's no demand pressure to move it, but there's also no risk in picking up copies.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.