Lure
| Lure (Targeted Lure) | |
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[[File:{{#setmainimage:MTGA Must-be-blocked.png}}|70x70px]] | |
| Mechanic | |
| Introduced | Alpha |
| Last used | Doctor Who |
| Text |
All creatures able to block [creature] do so. Target creature blocks [creature] this turn if able. |
| Statistics |
39 Lure cards  2.6%  2.6%  5.1%  66.7%  2.6%  2.6%  10.3%  7.7% 25 Targeted lure cards  8%  12% 8% 52% 4% 8%  4% 4% |
| Scryfall Search | |
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fulloracle:"able to block" fulloracle:"Target creature blocks" | |
The lure ability, informally named after the eponymous Lure card, is an ability that limits an opponent's options when blocking, such that they are compelled to block any creatures with the ability.
History
This ability has been with Magic since Alpha. It is primary in green, but R&D has started scaling back how often it is used. It's done infrequently now, and only at higher rarities because of its impact on Limited.[1]
Two main forms of the ability exist, forcing all creatures able to block ("lure") or a given target creature to block a creature with the ability ("targeted lure" or "lure limited"). R&D has started occasionally using the latter ability in red.[1]
The lure ability can be used to force opponents to block smaller creatures to permit larger ones to directly attack them or to block creatures with abilities that would produce a favorable outcome for the attacking player (e.g., deathtouch, venom, rampage). There was a short time in which it acted as the Limited green interactive piece at common (e.g. Hunt Down), but it was quickly supplanted with Fight, as even with the liabilities Fight has, the Lure effect had those and many more.
On cards
Lure
Creatures
- Breaker of Armies
- Elvish Bard
- The Foretold Soldier
- Glorfindel, Dauntless Rescuer
- Golgari Decoy
- Holga, Relentless Rager
- Jermane, Pride of the Circus
- Lukamina, Scorpion Form
- Marble Priest (walls)
- Mortipede
- Nath's Elite
- Nessian Boar
- Noble Quarry
- Ochran Assassin
- Prized Unicorn
- Riveteers Decoy
- Shinen of Life's Roar
- Stone-Tongue Basilisk
- Talruum Piper (creatures with flying)
- Taunting Elf
- Tempting Licid
- Taunting Arbormage
- Treeshaker Chimera
Enchantments
- Gift of the Deity
- Indrik Umbra
- Lure
- Noble Quarry (in Aura form)
- Seton's Desire
- Tempting Licid (in Aura form)
Sorceries
Instants
Artifacts
Targeted Lure
Creatures
- Auriok Siege Sled
- Burning-Tree Bloodscale
- Courtly Provocateur
- Giant Ambush Beetle
- Lineprancers
- Lurking Arynx
- Maraleaf Rider
- Matsu-Tribe Decoy
- Nacatl Hunt-Pride
- Peema Aether-Seer
- Rampant Elephant
- Rimehorn Aurochs
- Sisters of Stone Death
- Tangle Angler
- Torchling
- Trumpeting Armodon
- Turntimber Basilisk
- Vortex Elemental
Instants
Sorceries
Artifacts
See also
References
- ↑ a b Mark Rosewater (June 5, 2017). "Mechanical Color Pie 2017". magicthegathering.com. Wizards of the Coast.