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Psychic Puppetry

Instant — Arcane

You may tap or untap target permanent.
Splice onto Arcane {U} (As you cast an Arcane spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

CMC
2
Mana cost
{1}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
common
Set
Champions of Kamigawa
Price
$0.42
EDHREC rank
#18142
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Psychic Puppetry card art
Psychic Puppetry taps or untaps any permanent for a single blue mana — and the splice-onto-arcane rider means every subsequent arcane spell you cast can rebuy that effect for free. It's narrower than Dual Casting but cheaper, and in the right shell it does real work for almost nothing.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper legal
oathbreaker legal

Psychic Puppetry is legal in Commander, Legacy, Modern, Vintage, Pauper, and Oathbreaker, but it only earns a slot in decks that either abuse untap loops or run enough arcane spells to make splice relevant. In Commander, it shows up in Yeva, Nature's Herald or Isochron Scepter shells that want repeatable tap/untap at instant speed; the splice text is often irrelevant there, but the base effect is clean enough to carry the card. In Pauper it's more interesting — arcane synergies are denser at common, and splicing Psychic Puppetry onto a chain of Reach Through Mists can generate real advantage. Legacy and Vintage have no reason to touch it; one mana for tap-or-untap doesn't clear the bar when the competition is Force of Will and Mox Sapphire.

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Price Context

Current price

$0.42 bulk tier

At $0.42, Psychic Puppetry is deep bulk — you're paying almost nothing for a card with a genuine niche use case. That price is stable; there's no crossover demand from competitive formats pushing it up, so grab a copy whenever you need one without thinking twice.

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