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Felidar Umbra

Enchantment — Aura1 generic manaWhite mana

The relocation clause is what makes umbra armor more than a fragile totem. Most protective Auras die with their host or strand themselves when the creature they're guarding gets outclassed; this one carries a reactivatable ability to peel off one creature and reattach to another at instant speed, for a repeatable cost. That turns the sacrificial-shield mechanic (soak one destruction effect, then the Aura goes instead of the creature) into a mobile keep-away game: point removal at the enchanted creature and you either let the umbra armor replacement absorb it or slide the Aura to whatever else you leave open, ceding that creature but preserving the shield. The lifelink rider is the quiet tax on all of it, converting whichever body currently wears the Aura into a life engine while it survives. The design is really a piece of counterplay engineering: it asks the opponent to commit two answers where they budgeted for one, and rewards a board wide enough that there's always another creature to protect. Against a mass 'destroy all creatures' sweeper it still saves the enchanted one, though it only shields a single body at a time; against a deck built on targeted removal it can single-handedly stall the exchange. The mobility ability is doing the heavy lifting, and it's the reason this reads as a control tool wearing an aggressive keyword rather than the other way around.

Felidar Umbra (pc2)
PC2 · #6uncommon
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Normal: $4.36
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Enchant creature Enchanted creature has lifelink. 1 generic manaWhite mana: Attach this Aura to target creature you control. Umbra armor (If enchanted creature would be destroyed, instead remove all damage from it and destroy this Aura.)
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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