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Cryptic Coat

Artifact — Equipment2 generic manaBlue mana

Equipment that generates its own equip target is a neat resolution to a chronic problem: the piece of gear that eats a removal spell and then sits stranded on an empty board. Here the enters-trigger builds the creature it needs, converting the next card off your deck into a face-down 2/2 and stapling itself on in the same breath, so it never has that dead window. The cloak mechanic does double duty, because that disguised body might flip into anything from a modest creature to a hidden bomb, all shielded by ward until you pay the printed mana cost of a creature underneath and reveal it. Meanwhile the +1/+0 and the unblockable clause turn whatever you cloaked into a real clock the opponent must interact with before they even know what it is. The return ability is what makes the engine repeatable: bounce the artifact for 1 generic manaBlue mana, recast it for 2 generic manaBlue mana to cloak a fresh card, and the same evasive threat comes back attached to a new mystery. That full loop runs five mana total, split between an activated ability and a hard recast rather than a single cheap replay, so it is a value engine you tighten over several turns instead of spinning every turn. The identity is the loop, not the stat line: most Equipment asks you to already own a body worth suiting up; this one manufactures the body, protects it, hides its true value, and makes it hard to block, folding card advantage, evasion, and a hidden threat into one artifact.

Cryptic Coat (pmkm)
PMKM · #50srare
Pricing
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Foil: $1.53
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this Equipment enters, cloak the top card of your library, then attach this Equipment to it. (To cloak a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature with ward 2 generic mana. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.) Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and can't be blocked. 1 generic manaBlue mana: Return this Equipment to its owner's hand.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
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
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
Printings elsewhere

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