Entrancing Lyre
Artifact
You may choose not to untap this artifact during your untap step.
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: Tap target creature with power X or less. It doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as this artifact remains tapped.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Theros Beyond Death
- Price
- $0.11
- EDHREC rank
- #22638
Entrancing Lyre taps a creature and keeps it tapped as long as the Lyre stays tapped — repeatable, colorless, unconditional control over any nonland permanent a creature represents. The cost is real: you're spending mana every turn to maintain the lock and leaving an artifact on the board that screams for removal.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Commander is where Entrancing Lyre actually earns its slot — the format's single-copy constraint means unconditional, repeatable removal substitutes are worth running, and locking down a commander or a problematic creature for the whole table is a meaningful political tool. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern or Legacy, it's unplayable; paying mana every turn to suppress one creature when cheaper, permanent answers exist is a nonstarter. Pioneer players are in the same boat. Entrancing Lyre is a Commander card wearing a universal legality badge.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.11 bulk tier
At $0.11, Entrancing Lyre is deep bulk — pick it up from any common box or dollar bin without a second thought. Bulk artifacts with narrow but real utility tend to stay in this range indefinitely, so there's no urgency and no premium to worry about.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.