Puppet Strings
Tempest 304 • uncommon
- Set
- Tempest
- Collector number
- 304
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Scott Kirschner
- Market price
- $1.01
What it does
2 generic mana, tap: You may tap or untap target creature.
"Have no illusions," Volrath warned Greven, "about free will."
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Puppet Strings was released in 1997 as part of the Tempest expansion for Magic: The Gathering. As the third set in the Rath Cycle, Tempest introduced mechanics focused on graveyard interaction and aggressive play styles, reflecting a period in the game's history where Wizards of the Coast was rapidly expanding its mechanical complexity and narrative depth.
The card features artwork by Margaret Organ-Kean, who contributed several illustrations during the mid-nineties era of the game. Her design for Puppet Strings leans into the gothic, mechanical aesthetic common to the Rath plane, visually representing the card's ability to untap artifacts or creatures through a thematic motif of puppetry and control.
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