Entrancing Lyre
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
Theros Beyond DeathTHB · #233
- Card type
- Artifact
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.04 € · ★ 0.14 € · 0.11 $ · ★ 0.22 $
- Mana value
- 3
- Colour
- Colourless
Card text
You may choose not to untap this artifact during your untap step. , : Tap target creature with power X or less. It doesn't untap during its controller's untap step for as long as this artifact remains tapped.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- PennyLegal
- PioneerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
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Printing information
- Illustrator
- Yeong-Hao Han
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2020-01-24
Flavour text
Its strings are wayward threads of fate.
Rulings
Entrancing Lyre’s activated ability can target a creature that’s already tapped. That creature won’t untap for as long as Entrancing Lyre remains tapped.
If Entrancing Lyre becomes untapped before its activated ability resolves, the target creature is tapped, but it can untap as usual. This is true even if Entrancing Lyre becomes tapped again before the activated ability resolves.
If Entrancing Lyre leaves the battlefield, it’s no longer tapped, so the creature is free to untap as usual.
If the target creature is an illegal target by the time Entrancing Lyre’s ability tries to resolve, the ability won’t resolve. The creature isn’t tapped and can untap as usual.
If the target creature’s power is increased after Entrancing Lyre’s ability has resolved, it remains affected and won’t untap as usual.
Once Entrancing Lyre is no longer tapped, the creature won’t immediately become untapped.