Entangler
Enchantment — Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature can block any number of creatures.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Prophecy
- Price
- $7.88
- EDHREC rank
- #9484
Entangler forces every creature you control to block it each combat — staple that on a commander like Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer who wants to absorb damage and convert it into poison counters, and you've built a mandatory damage engine with a single enchantment. At four mana in white, the setup cost is real, but the political and mechanical leverage it creates is immediate and hard to ignore.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer
Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer is the deck that made Entangler a staple — the commander converts damage dealt to it into poison counters for opponents, so Entangler's forced-blocking clause means every combat step across the table feeds the poison engine without Anti-Venom ever swinging.
Jared Carthalion, True Heir
Jared Carthalion, True Heir wants to take combat damage to trigger his +1/+1 counter accumulation, and Entangler guarantees that every attacking creature runs into him — turning opponents' boards into a consistent resource rather than an occasional threat.
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Bruna, Light of Alabaster is an Aura-focused commander who benefits from being the biggest, most relevant creature on board, and Entangler both protects the rest of your permanents and stacks naturally with the other enchantments already attached to Bruna.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Entangler is legal in Commander, Legacy, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but its home is Commander by a wide margin — the multiplayer combat step is where forced-blocking effects generate the most leverage, redirecting three or four attackers per turn cycle instead of one. In Legacy and Vintage, the effect is too slow and too fragile at four mana to see meaningful play; those formats solve combat damage questions with faster, more resilient tools. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 60-card-adjacent format where Entangler could appear, specifically in planeswalker-protecting builds where keeping attackers occupied is the whole plan.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Budget Alternatives
Cheaper options that do most of the same work
Lure and Nemesis Mask are the clearest functional replacements for Entangler — both force blocks onto a single creature for two or three mana less, though they require targeting a specific creature each combat rather than sitting as a passive aura on your commander. If the goal is specifically to protect a commander and trigger combat-damage abilities, Propaganda and Ghostly Prison are cheaper pillowfort alternatives that discourage attacks entirely, though they trade Entangler's active damage-conversion for passive deterrence.
Price Context
Current price
$7.88 mid tier
At $7.88, Entangler sits in the mid tier — noticeable but not backbreaking for an EDH staple with a narrow home. Its price is propped up almost entirely by Anti-Venom demand; outside of that specific commander archetype, the card sees little play, so its value is directly tied to how long that deck stays popular.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer
- Jared Carthalion, True Heir
- Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.