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Rope

Artifact — Clue EquipmentGreen mana

The double-typing is the whole design conceit: an Equipment that is also a Clue, which means the sacrifice-to-draw clause is not an afterthought stapled onto gear but the object's second life. Green rarely gets to trade a permanent for a card, and this smooths that friction by letting the tool do combat work first (a soft evasion, since blockers can't gang up on the equipped creature, plus reach to cover fliers) and then convert into a card once the buff has done its job. Note the sequencing tax that keeps the two halves apart: at one mana it enters cheap, but attaching it costs 3 generic mana at sorcery speed and cracking it for a card costs another 2 generic mana, so you rarely get the beatdown and the draw on the same turn. Holding both options open is a privilege the design makes you pay for, one payment at a time. What's quietly clever is how it hedges against a dead draw in an aggressive green shell: the +1/+2 and the can't-be-blocked-by-more-than-one clause push damage while the board is live, and the instant the board stalls or the creature dies, the same permanent reverts to being a Clue you were always allowed to crack. It is one card wearing two of green's least-natural hats, evasion enabler and card-draw engine, stitched together by the flavor of a murder-mystery prop.

Rope (mkm)
MKM · #173uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.10
Foil: $0.13
Oracle Text

Rules text

Equipped creature gets +1/+2, has reach, and can't be blocked by more than one creature. 2 generic mana, Sacrifice this Equipment: Draw a card. Equip 3 generic mana
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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