Perilous Snare
- Mana cost
- {2}{W}
- Type
- Artifact
- Set
- Aetherdrift #377 (rare)
- Price
- $0.33 USD
Start your engines! (If you have no speed, it starts at 1. It increases once on each of your turns when an opponent loses life. Max speed is 4.)
When this artifact enters, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until this artifact leaves the battlefield.
Max speed — {T}: Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature or Vehicle you control. Activate only as a sorcery.
Perilous Snare has 5 printings, first in Aetherdrift (2025). EDHREC ranks it #9,436 among Commander cards. It appears most in Samut, the Driving Force decks (2,762 on EDHREC). It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: legal
- standard: legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Perilous Snare most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Samut, the Driving Force: 2,762 decks
- Kolodin, Triumph Caster: 344 decks
- Tsagan, Raider Warlord: 332 decks
- Caradora, Heart of Alacria: 273 decks
- Queen Kayla bin-Kroog: 159 decks
- Zahur, Glory's Past: 101 decks
- Ertha Jo, Frontier Mentor: 41 decks
- Momo, Playful Pet: 18 decks
Often played with Perilous Snare
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Each player tracks their speed (or lack thereof) separately. Increasing your speed has no effect on whether another player has speed.
- : A player “has max speed” if their speed is 4.
- : If an effect needs to know what a player’s speed is and that player doesn’t have a speed, their speed is considered 0.
- : Your speed doesn’t change until a spell or ability says so, such as the inherent triggered ability that cares about opponents losing life during your turn. Notably, losing control of permanents with start your engines! doesn’t affect your speed.
- : “Max speed — [ability]” means “As long as you have max speed, this object has [ability].” If the granted ability functions in a zone other than the battlefield, the max speed ability does too.
- : Start your engines! isn’t a triggered ability. Increasing your speed to 1 is something that happens as a state-based action as soon as you control a permanent with the ability. Notably, this includes gaining control of a permanent with the ability that another player controls.