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Ensnared by the Mara

Ensnared by the Mara Price

4 printings · 1 set · first printed 2023

Cheapest $7.49
Median $11.44
Highest $18.03
EDHREC Rank #3,405

Ensnared by the Mara has been printed 4 times across 1 set, first in 2023. Right now the cheapest printing is Doctor Who #84 at $7.49, while the most expensive is Doctor Who #975 at $18.03 — about 2× more. The median across 4 priced printings is $11.44. Reprint risk: HIGH RISK — Reprinted 4x, including dedicated reprint sets like Doctor Who.

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Every Ensnared by the Mara Printing, Compared

Cheapest first · unpriced last
Printing Year Price Dealer Buys
Doctor Who #84 (R) Cheapest 2023 $7.49 $1.85
Doctor Who #689 (R) Foil 2023 $11.16 $8.00 foil
Doctor Who #384 (R) 2023 $11.71 $5.75
Doctor Who #975 (R) Foil 2023 $18.03 $12.50 foil

Prices are the latest nightly market price; a printing with no tracked price shows a dash. Dealer buylist is Card Kingdom's current offer via MTGJSON, shown where one exists.

Oracle Text
Sorcery
Each opponent faces a villainous choice — They exile cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card, then you may cast that card without paying its mana cost, or that player exiles the top four cards of their library and Ensnared by the Mara deals damage equal to the total mana value of those exiled cards to that player.
Legal In
Legacy Vintage Commander

Legality is a property of the card, not the printing, so it is identical for all 4 versions.

Official Judge Precedents

4 Precedents

When a player faces a villainous choice, they first choose one of the two options, then all actions in the chosen option are performed.

If a spell or ability requires multiple players to face a villainous choice, the result is a little different from other effects in Magic. In that case, the first player in turn order makes their choice and the action for that choice is performed before the next player makes their choice. Then each of the remaining players repeat this process in turn order.

A player facing a villainous choice can always choose either option, even if one or both of the options are impossible. For example, if one of the options is to sacrifice a creature, a player who controls no creatures can still choose that option.

The opponent chooses whether to exile cards from the top of their library until they exile a nonland card or to exile the top four cards of their library. They don't choose whether you cast the cards exiled by the first option.