Siren Song Lyre
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature has "
, 
: Tap target creature."
Equip
- CMC
- 2
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Born of the Gods
- Price
- $0.16
- EDHREC rank
- #26070
Siren Song Lyre taps a creature and keeps it tapped every upkeep for as long as you keep paying two mana — repeatable soft removal on an artifact you can tutor with equipment lines. The cost is real: three to equip, two each turn, and it never permanently answers the threat.
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 the only format where Siren Song Lyre earns a serious look, and even there it belongs in a narrow slice of decks — primarily artifact-matters builds that want redundancy on tap-down effects or equipment synergy payoffs. In Legacy, Modern, and Pioneer it is simply outclassed: those formats move too fast for a three-mana equip that demands a two-mana tax every upkeep. Oathbreaker shares enough of Commander's singleton artifact-synergy logic that the same niche applies, but the smaller deck size makes drawing it more likely and cutting it easier to justify.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.16 bulk tier
At $0.16, Siren Song Lyre is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard, not scarcity. The price is stable because demand is narrow; it won't spike unless a new artifact-equipment commander pushes it into widespread play, and nothing on the horizon suggests that.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.