Glare of Subdual

Enchantment

Tap an untapped creature you control: Tap target artifact or creature.

CMC
4
Mana cost
{2}{G}{W}
Color identity
GW
Rarity
rare
Set
Eternal Masters
Price
$0.55
EDHREC rank
#11127
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Glare of Subdual card art
Glare of Subdual turns every token or creature you can tap into a repeatable, free Icy Manipulator — at enchantment speed, it locks your opponents out of attacking or blocking for as long as you keep making bodies. Pair it with Emmara, Soul of the Accord and you have a self-feeding engine where tapping Emmara to activate Glare of Subdual immediately produces the next tapper, and stacking Intruder Alarm on top turns that loop into a hard lock.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

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Emmara, Soul of the Accord

Emmara, Soul of the Accord

35.0% of decks · synergy 0.33

Emmara, Soul of the Accord is the canonical Glare of Subdual home because her tap trigger generates the exact resource the enchantment consumes — tap Emmara, make a token, tap the token next turn, make another — and Glare of Subdual converts that incremental token production into a table-wide stax piece that keeps opponents' boards permanently tapped down.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander
legacy
modern
pioneer
standard
vintage
pauper
oathbreaker

Glare of Subdual is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, and Oathbreaker, but it's almost exclusively a Commander card — the four-mana cost and reliance on a wide board is too slow to matter in 60-card formats where games end before you build the critical mass it needs. In Commander, the threat density is exactly right: token strategies flood the board by turn four or five, and Glare of Subdual converts that presence into a soft lock that forces opponents to answer the enchantment before they can attack. It's not a staple in every green-white deck, but in any shell generating three or more creatures per turn cycle it earns its slot.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

73 decks
Intruder AlarmStonybrook SchoolmasterGlare of Subdual

Intruder AlarmStonybrook SchoolmasterGlare of Subdual

Infinite creature tokens; Infinite ETB; Infinite mana creatures you control can produce; Infinite untap of creatures; Infinite untap of creatures you control

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Price Context

Current price

$0.55 bulk tier

At $0.55, Glare of Subdual sits firmly in bulk territory, which makes it an easy include for budget token builds. The price is unlikely to spike dramatically given multiple printings, so pick it up cheaply now without any urgency.

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