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Dimir Keyrune

Artifact3 generic mana

The Keyrune cycle bundles two of the most common jobs in a guild deck into one body: it fixes mana while the board is empty, then turns sideways once the game stalls. What distinguishes this Dimir entry from its colorpie neighbors is the second activation, which trades the keyword granted to other Keyrunes (haste, vigilance, that sort of thing) for unblockable, the most on-brand evasion the guild owns. That choice tells you exactly what the card is for. Where a Boros or Gruul Keyrune wants to swing into a clogged board, this one wants to slip past it: a 2/2 that connects every turn it animates, ferrying combat damage you could not otherwise force through. It is a mana rock that doubles as an inevitability clock, the rare ramp piece that still does useful work in the late game when an unanimated rock would sit dead. The tension is the same one every man-land and animated artifact carries: the turn you attack with it is a turn it stops fixing your mana and starts exposing itself to removal that would otherwise have nothing to hit. The unblockable clause does soften that math, since you rarely need to commit it into a profitable block, only into open damage. A modest engine, but a coherent one, and the cleanest expression of what Dimir wants a colorless slot to do.

Dimir Keyrune (gtc)
GTC · #228uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.22
Foil: $1.44
Oracle Text

Rules text

Tap: Add Blue mana or Black mana. Blue manaBlack mana: This artifact becomes a 2/2 blue and black Horror artifact creature until end of turn and can't be blocked this turn.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
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
Printings elsewhere

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