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Cloudsteel Kirin

Artifact Creature — Equipment Kirin2 generic manaWhite mana

The "you can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game" clause has a long, awkward history: Platinum Angel bolts it to a fragile flier that hands the lock right back the moment it dies, and Angel's Grace rents it for a single turn. Stapling that text to a body always runs into the same trap: the body is the failure point, and a creature that just sits there daring an opponent to kill it means you have paid full price for a target. This design sidesteps that by making the carrier useful before it ever becomes insurance. A 3/2 flier for 2 generic manaWhite mana pressures the board immediately, and only later, once you have a creature worth shielding, does Reconfigure convert it into a can't-lose lock strapped to something sturdier. That two-stage life keeps the card from ever going dead: it starts as a flier you were happy to cast anyway. The 5 generic mana Reconfigure cost is what keeps the whole thing honest. Moving the shield is a full turn's sorcery-speed commitment, so an opponent gets a window to remove the intended host before the armor snaps on, and the lock is only ever as durable as the creature wearing it. Kill that creature and the "can't lose" text leaves with it. What it buys is the conversion of any slow grind (a mill clock, an incremental drain, a stalemate) into a race the opponent literally cannot win, so long as the warded creature stays on the battlefield.

Cloudsteel Kirin (neo)
NEO · #364rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.56
Foil: $1.07
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flying Equipped creature has flying and "You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game." Reconfigure 5 generic mana (5 generic mana: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)
Legalities

Format Status

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

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