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Airtight Alibi

Enchantment — Aura2 generic manaGreen mana

Green combat tricks that protect a creature are old hat; what makes this one worth reading is how densely it stacks its effects for the price. Flash lets it ambush at instant speed, but the real work is what it does the moment it lands: it untaps the enchanted creature (so a tapped-out attacker becomes a blocker, or a creature that just used a tap ability is freed to swing again), grants hexproof to dodge the removal that a savvy opponent held for exactly this window, and leaves a permanent +2/+2 bolted on. That trifecta of tempo, protection, and a lasting stat bump on a single card is unusually generous for green's color pie, which normally makes you choose one.

The clever part is how it engages with the suspected mechanic, a keyword that stalks a creature and forbids it from blocking. This Aura scrubs an existing suspected status clean on entry and then padlocks the creature so it can't be suspected again for as long as the Aura stays. Read purely as a fight-winning trick it looks like a lot of text for a modest job, but that anti-suspected clause is the tell: the card was built to answer a specific control lever in its own mechanical ecosystem, and it answers it permanently rather than for a turn. The rest of the package is what earns it a slot when suspected isn't on the board.

Airtight Alibi (mkm)
MKM · #149common
Pricing
Normal: $0.13
Foil: $0.04
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flash Enchant creature When this Aura enters, untap enchanted creature. It gains hexproof until end of turn. If it's suspected, it's no longer suspected. Enchanted creature gets +2/+2 and can't become suspected.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
Legal
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
Legal
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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