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Crown of the Ages

Artifact2 generic mana

Auras are sticky by rule: once attached, they stay until the creature leaves or the enchantment dies, and the game gives you no native way to relocate one. This artifact answers a question almost no one was asking by making that attachment a resource you can manipulate after the fact: take a steal effect like Control Magic and redirect it to a fresh target, or slide a Pacifism off your own creature and onto theirs. The cost is deliberately steep, and it stacks. To use the activated ability you spend four mana and a tap, on top of the two you paid to cast the artifact and whatever the Aura itself cost, so a single redirection sits across several turns and multiple cards before it pays off. That sequencing is what keeps it on the shelf: the card plays less like a toolbox than a puzzle that rarely assembles itself, demanding you already have the right Aura on the right creature with spare mana to spare. It is a museum-grade specimen of design space that exists but has never found a deck to justify the price. Most Aura strategies would rather draw a second threat than spend six total mana rearranging one they already cast.

Crown of the Ages (ice)
ICE · #315rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

4 generic mana, Tap: Attach target Aura attached to a creature to another creature.
Legalities

Format Status

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