Tightening Coils
Battle for Zendikar 86 • common
- Set
- Battle for Zendikar
- Collector number
- 86
- Rarity
- Common
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana blue mana
- Type
- Enchantment
- Colors
- Blue
- Artist
- Tyler Jacobson
- Market price
- $0.06
What it does
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -6/-0 and loses flying.
Having gone to the trouble of stealing a bident from a god on another world, Kiora was eager to test its capabilities.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerLegal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperLegal
- BrawlLegal
- HistoricLegal
- TimelessLegal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Tightening Coils was released in the 2015 Magic: The Gathering set Battle for Zendikar. The set was designed to revisit the plane of Zendikar, emphasizing a desperate struggle against the Eldrazi titans. As a common-rarity enchantment, the card was developed to provide limited environments with necessary removal options, representing the theme of the Eldrazi physically restraining and consuming the denizens of the plane.
The card was illustrated by Johannes Voss, a frequent contributor to the game whose style is often characterized by a high degree of atmospheric detail. For this piece, Voss focused on capturing the oppressive nature of the Eldrazi influence, using the visual motif of jagged, ethereal bonds to convey the card's function of neutralising a creature. The design was received as a functional, flavor-aligned inclusion for draft play during the set's cycle.
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