Hampering Snare
Instant
Creatures your opponents control get -2/-0 until end of turn.
Cycling 
(, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths
- Price
- $0.06
- EDHREC rank
- #24993
Hampering Snare taps up to two target creatures at instant speed — solid tempo, but a one-shot effect that doesn't remove the threat. At one blue mana, the cost is right, but most competitive blue decks find better uses for that slot.
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 | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Hampering Snare is a narrow combat trick — tapping two blockers to push through a lethal swing or buying a turn against an alpha strike has real situational value, but the effect doesn't scale well in a four-player game where threats multiply fast. Pauper is the format where Hampering Snare is most at home, slotting into tempo and faeries shells that chain cheap interaction to win through evasion. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer the card is legal but nowhere near the power threshold those formats demand.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.06 bulk tier
At $0.06, Hampering Snare is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick out of a commons box, not one you seek out. That price reflects the ceiling accurately; there's no realistic scenario where demand drives this above bulk rare territory.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.