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Mantle of Tides

Artifact — EquipmentBlue mana

Equipment usually asks for tempo up front: pay the equip cost, spend the mana every time you want the buff to travel. This one folds the reattachment into a payoff a blue draw-two deck is already chasing. When your extra card of the turn resolves, the Equipment jumps to a creature of your choice for free, which quietly turns the +1/+2 into something that follows your board around instead of anchoring to one body. That reframes what the buff is worth. On a single creature +1/+2 is modest, the kind of stat bump that loses to most removal on tempo; but as a floating buff that migrates to whichever creature wants it most (the flier that needs to survive a swing back, the attacker you want out of burn range), it becomes a repeatable, low-cost reward for a deck built to look two cards deep. The sorcery-speed equip cost stays on the card for turns you miss the trigger, so it never fully rots, but the design intent is unmistakable: this is a payoff bolted onto an Equipment chassis, priced at one mana so the card-advantage engine carries the freight. The +2 toughness does more work here than the +1 power, lifting small evasive attackers above the most common combat and burn ranges while the free attaches let you reassign that protection from turn to turn.

Mantle of Tides (eld)
ELD · #52common
Pricing
Normal: $0.06
Foil: $0.28
Oracle Text

Rules text

Equipped creature gets +1/+2. Whenever you draw your second card each turn, attach this Equipment to target creature you control. Equip 3 generic mana (3 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
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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