Entrapment Maneuver
Instant
Target player sacrifices an attacking creature of their choice. You create X 1/1 white Soldier creature tokens, where X is that creature's toughness.
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- W
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Warhammer 40,000 Commander
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #4453
Entrapment Maneuver removes an attacking creature and converts it into a pile of Soldier tokens, turning an opponent's best attacker into your board presence at instant speed. The four-mana cost is real, but the tempo swing — eliminating a threat while gaining tokens — is exactly what token-focused white decks want. Commissar Severina Raine builds that want into an engine, which is why 42% of her decks run it.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Commissar Severina Raine
Commissar Severina Raine drains opponents for each non-token creature that dies, so Entrapment Maneuver does double duty: it kills an attacker to trigger the drain, then floods the board with Soldiers to fuel future sacrifice or combat math.
Caesar, Legion's Emperor
Caesar, Legion's Emperor rewards every token that enters the battlefield with draw and damage triggers, making Entrapment Maneuver a removal spell that simultaneously advances the engine — trade their attacker for a stack of Soldiers and watch Caesar fire.
Commander Mustard
Commander Mustard cares about creatures attacking and dying, and Entrapment Maneuver feeds both sides of that loop by punishing an opponent's attacker and stocking the battlefield with fodder that can charge in and die on your next turn.
Inquisitor Greyfax
Inquisitor Greyfax buffs and vigilances up your token army, and Entrapment Maneuver is a clean way to grow that army at instant speed while also answering an early threat before it connects.
Marneus Calgar
Marneus Calgar draws a card for each token that enters, so Entrapment Maneuver is removal that replaces itself multiple times over — the more tokens it generates, the deeper you dig.
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 |
Entrapment Maneuver is a Commander card through and through: multiplayer combat is chaotic, attackers are big, and converting a single threat into a Soldier swarm shifts the table dynamic in ways that matter at a four-player pod. It's legal in Legacy and Vintage but sees no meaningful play there — four mana at sorcery-speed-adjacent (it's instant, but competing with Swords to Plowshares and Force of Will) is simply not where those formats operate. In Oathbreaker the token generation can be relevant, especially under a planeswalker that cares about bodies, but the format's faster pace means the four-mana slot is contested. Commander is where Entrapment Maneuver earns its keep, specifically in token and go-wide strategies that want reactive plays to double as board development.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Entrapment Maneuver isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for live numbers before buying. Given its niche role as a combat-phase token generator in a handful of Warhammer 40,000-adjacent commanders, it tends to stay inexpensive — it's not a card with broad demand outside those specific shells.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.