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Crystal Slipper

Artifact — Equipment1 generic manaRed mana

Haste-granting equipment lives in a narrow but recurring corner of red's toolbox: the cheap, reattachable engine that erases a turn's worth of summoning-sickness lag on whatever creature you point it at. The +1/+0 is a rounding error next to what the haste is actually buying. That matters most for the bodies you replay again and again: recursion targets, a creature cast off the top that you would rather swing with now than telegraph for a turn, or a token maker whose board wants to attack the moment it arrives. The equip cost of 1 generic mana is the whole pitch, letting the same slipper hop from a dead creature to a live one for a trivial cost, so the value accrues across many turns rather than in a single burst. Where a one-shot haste enabler gives you one aggressive turn and vanishes, this stays on the battlefield, ready to shuttle the buff onto whatever attacker comes next. That permanence is the trade: it costs a card and a sorcery-speed attach to do what a cheaper trick does once, but it does it every turn thereafter. The catch is inherent to equipment: the attach happens only as a sorcery, so the slipper cannot flash haste onto a creature mid-combat or in response to a blocker. It is a plan you commit to before the turn opens, not a trick you spring during it. Straightforward, unglamorous, low-rarity aggression.

Crystal Slipper (eld)
ELD · #119common
Pricing
Normal: $0.13
Foil: $0.26
Oracle Text

Rules text

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has haste. Equip 1 generic mana (1 generic mana: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Legalities

Format Status

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