Printings
Stranglehold
Card Information
Type: Enchantment
Mana Cost: 3
CMC: 4
Part of the Reserved List: No
Color Identity:
Set: Secret Lair Drop (SLD)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 1804
Oracle Text
Your opponents can't search libraries. If an opponent would begin an extra turn, that player skips that turn instead.
Format Legalities
Card Rulings
- September 22, 2011
Effects that instruct your opponents to reveal or look at cards from the top of their libraries will still work. Only effects that use the word “search” are affected.
Source: wotc - September 22, 2011
If an opponent’s extra turn is created while Stranglehold is on the battlefield, but Stranglehold leaves the battlefield before that turn would begin, that opponent takes the extra turn as normal.
Source: wotc - September 22, 2011
An “extra turn” means a turn created by a spell or ability. It doesn’t refer to a turn taken in a sanctioned tournament after the time limit for the round has expired.
Source: wotc - September 22, 2011
If an effect says “Search your library . . . then shuffle your library,” your opponents shuffle their libraries even though they can’t search.
Source: wotc - September 22, 2011
If an effect says “You may search your library . . . If you do, shuffle your library” or “You may search your library . . . then shuffle your library,” your opponents can’t choose to search, so they won’t shuffle.
Source: wotc
Price History
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