Tangle Wire
Mana cost {3}.
Fading 4 (This artifact enters with four fade counters on it. At the beginning of your upkeep, remove a fade counter from it. If you can't, sacrifice it.)
At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player taps an untapped artifact, creature, or land they control for each fade counter on this artifact.
Tangle Wire is legal in Premodern, shown in its old-frame Nemesis printing.
Price and printings: Cardmarket (€25.29) · TCGplayer ($28.38) · Scryfall
Tracked daily since 28 July 2026: on Cardmarket between €24.63 and €32.53 in that time.
How often Tangle Wire is played
Tangle Wire is maindecked in 6 of 131 tournament decks in this archive (5%), averaging 4.0 copies; used by 1 of 33 tracked archetypes.
See how it compares on the Premodern staples list.
Premodern archetypes that play Tangle Wire
- MUD: Enters with four fade counters, and each player taps an untapped artifact, creature or land per counter in their upkeep. On your own upkeep let the fading trigger resolve first, so you tap one permanent fewer, and tap Tangle Wire itself as one of them.
Tournament decks with Tangle Wire
- MUD: 1st Place at Semanal Premodern (4× mainboard)
- Big Mono Green: 5th Place at Finland Nationals 2026 (4× mainboard)
- Beefcake: 1st Place at Bolt the Bird (4× mainboard)
- Colorless MUD Stax: 2nd Place at Liga Feijoada @ Santa Cruz (4× mainboard)
- MUD: 1st Place at Full Tapped - Summer Season (4× mainboard)
- Welder Survival: 1st Place at 1K @ SCG CON Washington (4× mainboard)
Spicy brews with Tangle Wire
- Pirates (4×)
- Chronatog Stax (4×)
- Land Locked (2×)
