
Stranglehold
{3}{R}
Enchantment
Your opponents can’t search libraries.
If an opponent would begin an extra turn, that player skips that turn instead.
The correct answer to a barbarian’s riddle is to choke on your cleverness and die.
Illustrated by John Stanko
- Standard
- Not Legal
- Brawl
- Not Legal
- Pioneer
- Not Legal
- Historic
- Not Legal
- Modern
- Not Legal
- Pauper
- Not Legal
- Legacy
- Legal
- Penny
- Not Legal
- Vintage
- Legal
- Commander
- Legal
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Notes and Rules Information for Stranglehold:
- If your opponent controls a Stranglehold and an effect says “You may search your library . . . If you do, shuffle your library,” you can’t choose to search, so you won’t shuffle. (2011-09-22)
- If your opponent controls a Stranglehold and an effect says “Search your library . . . Then shuffle your library,” the search effect fails, but you will still have to shuffle. (2011-09-22)
- Since opponents can’t search libraries, they won’t be able to find any cards in a library. The effect applies to all opponents and all libraries, including your library. If a spell or ability’s effect has other parts that don’t depend on searching for or finding cards, they will still work normally. (2011-09-22)
- Effects that tell an opponent to reveal cards from a library or look at cards from the top of a library will still work. Only effects that use the word “search” will fail. (2011-09-22)
- An “extra turn” means a turn created by a spell or ability. It doesn’t refer to a turn taken in a sanctioned tournament after the time limit for the round has expired. (2011-09-22)
- If an opponent’s extra turn is created while Stranglehold is on the battlefield, but Stranglehold leaves the battlefield before that turn would begin, that opponent takes the extra turn as normal. (2011-09-22)