First printed in Aetherdrift (2025)

All 5 prints

Aetherdrift (DFT) #23, 2025
Aetherdrift (DFT) #377, 2025
Aetherdrift (DFT) #430, 2025
Aetherdrift Promos (PDFT) #23p, 2025
Aetherdrift Promos (PDFT) #23s, 2025

Perilous Snare

Artifact

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 — tap : Put a +1/+1 counter on target creature or Vehicle you control. Activate only as a sorcery.

In the last 30 days 4.4% of Standard decks played it (63 of 1416). Most played in Jeskai Artifacts. In the last 30 days 3.5% of Legacy decks played it (38 of 1071). Most played in Tron.

In Limited on MTG Arena

Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).

Win rates of Perilous Snare in Limited
Set	GIH WR	vs set	IWD	Games
Aetherdrift (DFT), Premier Draft	61.9%	+7.0	+8.4	19116
Aetherdrift (DFT), Sealed	63.4%	+6.3	+8.4	1423

GIH WR: win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
vs set: points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
IWD: improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
Games: games in which the card was seen

Staple

Standard staples: main deck, 3% of decks (#158)
White, Artifacts, Removal, Creature removal, Artifact removal, Enchantment removal

Last 120 days of MTGO results and paper tournaments.

Legality

Constructed

Standard Legal
Pioneer Legal
Modern Legal
Legacy Legal
Vintage Legal
Pauper Not legal
Future Standard Legal
Historic Legal
Timeless Legal
Alchemy Legal
Penny Dreadful Legal
Premodern Not legal
Old School 93/94 Not legal

Singleton

Gladiator Legal

Commander formats

Commander Legal
Duel Commander Legal
Pauper Commander Not legal
PreDH Not legal
Tiny Leaders Legal
Oathbreaker Legal
Brawl Legal
Standard Brawl Legal
Competitive Brawl Legal

In tournament decks of the last 30 days

Meta: share of the archetype in the format
Play it: decks of the archetype that play this card
Together: decks with this card that also play the other one (main deck)
Lift: how much more often than chance: 1 = unrelated, above 1 = played together on purpose

Standard Other periods →

In 63 of 1416 decks (4.4%).

Share of decks

4.4%

▲ 1.7 vs previous 30 days

Weekly, last 90 days

Decks

63 main, 1 sideboard

Avg. copies

3.7

in the main deck

Win rate

64%

14 top 8 (challenges only)

Archetypes by metagame share

Archetype	Meta	Play it
Jeskai Artifacts	4.4%	100%

Played together with

Card	Together	Lift
The Fire Crystal	100%	22.5
Simulacrum Synthesizer	100%	22.5
Repurposing Bay	100%	22.5
United Battlefront	100%	21.1
Cryogen Relic	100%	20.8
Pinnacle Starcage	100%	12.1
Floodfarm Verge	100%	7.2
Hallowed Fountain	100%	5.7
Braided Net // Braided Quipu	98%	22.5
The Mind Stone	98%	18.8

Best win rate

Deck	Record
Jeskai Artifacts Cachorrowo in Standard Challenge 16	5-1 83%
Jeskai Artifacts bananadisaster in Standard Challenge 16	7-2 78%
Jeskai Artifacts -=Alfa=- in Standard Challenge 32 Special	7-2 78%
Jeskai Artifacts kanister in Standard Challenge 16	6-2 75%
Jeskai Artifacts RPA in Standard Championship Week Finals	6-2 75%
Jeskai Artifacts taldoitalo in Standard Championship Week Finals	6-2 75%
Jeskai Artifacts Denisevich in Standard Challenge 16 Special	6-2 75%
Jeskai Artifacts kanister in Standard Challenge 16	5-2 71%

Challenges only: MTGO publishes only the 5-0 league decks.

Latest decks

Deck	Copies	Finish
Jeskai Artifacts kanister, 28 Oct	4 main	#4 5-2
Jeskai Artifacts -=Alfa=-, 28 Oct	4 main	#18 1-3
Jeskai Artifacts OPMan, 27 Oct	4 main	#25 4-3
Jeskai Artifacts Redman1034, 27 Oct	4 main	#26 4-2
Jeskai Artifacts TheWitchKling, 27 Oct	4 main	5-0
Jeskai Artifacts Rusherlol, 26 Oct	4 main	5-0
Jeskai Artifacts Arena ranked player, 26 Oct	3 main
Jeskai Artifacts pokerswizard, 25 Oct	4 main	#6 5-2

Legacy Other periods →

In 38 of 1071 decks (3.5%).

Share of decks

3.5%

▲ 1.6 vs previous 30 days