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Hithlain Rope

Artifact2 generic mana

The catch is baked into the effect: every activation hands the artifact to the player on your right, so you fetch a land or draw a card once, then the Rope walks away from you and into someone else's hands. It turns a Rampant Growth or a cantrip into a party favor that circulates the table, each owner squeezing one use before passing it along the seat order. Building around it means treating the giveaway not as a downside but as the price of admission, or racing to get your value in before the object drifts out of reach. The "can't be sacrificed" clause carries real weight: it forecloses the obvious escape hatch of feeding the Rope to Krark-Clan Ironworks or Deadly Dispute to convert it into a stray resource and deny the next owner, so the artifact is locked into its circulation loop until something else exiles or destroys it. This is a design built entirely around shared ownership as a mechanic, the kind of political artifact that only makes sense at a table where handing a resource to an opponent is a bargaining chip rather than a pure loss. The land-fetch mode plays as symmetric ramp that everyone eventually samples; the draw mode plays as a rotating cantrip. Neither is efficient in a vacuum, and that is the point: the Rope is charged with turns, favors, and grudges rather than with pure card advantage.

Hithlain Rope (ltc)
LTC · #76rare
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Oracle Text

Rules text

This artifact can't be sacrificed. 1 generic mana, Tap: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. The player to your right gains control of this artifact. 2 generic mana, Tap: Draw a card. The player to your right gains control of this artifact.
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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