Vapor Snag
Instant
Return target creature to its owner's hand. Its controller loses 1 life.
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Modern Masters 2015
- Price
- $0.21
- EDHREC rank
- #10794
Vapor Snag bounces any creature for one blue mana and drains the opponent for 1 life — tempo at its most efficient. It's the best one-mana bounce spell in formats that have it, and the life loss is the tiebreaker over every comparable effect.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Vapor Snag is a Pauper staple and a Modern mainstay, showing up in tempo and control shells wherever cheap, clean interaction matters. In Legacy and Vintage the competition is stiffer — Force of Will, Swords to Plowshares, and free countermagic raise the bar — but Vapor Snag still earns slots in blue tempo builds that want to protect a threat or reset an opponent's. Commander is where it drops off: bouncing a single creature is card-disadvantage in a four-player game, and opponents simply recast whatever you sent back, leaving you a card down with nothing permanent to show for it.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.21 bulk tier
At $0.21, Vapor Snag is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and postage, not the card. Pauper and Modern demand keep it from bottoming out entirely, but don't expect the price to move.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.