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Crystalline Resonance

Enchantment2 generic manaBlue mana

Clone effects usually price themselves as a one-time snapshot: pay the mana, pick a target, live with the choice. This one detaches the clone from the mana entirely and staples it to cycling, so the copy becomes a repeatable option rather than a single commitment. Every time you cycle a card (an action you were doing anyway to smooth draws), this enchantment can slip into a copy of whatever permanent is worth being right now: the biggest attacker on the board, the best mana rock, an opponent's engine piece you'd rather borrow. Note the shape of the trigger: it is the enchantment itself that transforms, targeting another permanent to mirror, not a reshaping of the board at large. The "until your next turn" clause is the pivot that makes the whole thing viable, turning each copy into a rental rather than a lock-in, so the same card can wear an opponent's threat this turn and become your own beater the next. The self-referential rider ("except it has this ability") is the load-bearing detail: it preserves the cycling-trigger through every transformation, so the engine never copies itself out of existence, which is exactly the failure mode that kills most clone-loop designs. What emerges is a shapeshifter whose identity is renegotiated every time you filter your hand, a card that welds a filtering mechanic to a copy effect that rarely shares its space. The ceiling scales with how many cycling cards surround it, but the reset window is what keeps a permanently-mutable permanent from spiraling.

Crystalline Resonance (c20)
C20 · #31rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.27
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever you cycle a card, you may have this enchantment become a copy of another target permanent until your next turn, except it has this ability.
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
N/A
PreDH
N/A
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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