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Rune of Speed

Enchantment — Aura Rune1 generic manaRed mana

A two-mana Aura granting +1/+0 and haste has no business seeing play: the buff is too small, and the tempo hit of a targeted enchantment too large. The enters-the-battlefield cantrip is the fix, recasting the whole card as "a permanent buff that replaces itself." You are not spending a card to make a creature marginally bigger; you are drawing a card and taking the buff as a rider. That reframing is what lets a stat line this modest exist on a spell at all. The second clause does the subtler engineering. Because the Rune enchants any permanent rather than only a creature, it can sit on an Equipment and lend its bonus to whatever holds that gear, surviving the death of any single creature. Haste on an Equipment Aura is the genuinely strange wrinkle: gear that grants immediate attackers to freshly cast bodies, laundering summoning sickness through the equip step. Throughout, the cantrip carries the card, papering over the fundamental weakness of a permanent-based combat trick by making it cost nothing in the aggregate. It is an object lesson in how a replacement-draw clause can rehabilitate an effect that would otherwise be unplayable, and the modularity between creature and Equipment targeting is what turns the broadest possible enchant clause into an asset rather than filler.

Rune of Speed (khm)
KHM · #148uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.26
Foil: $0.30
Oracle Text

Rules text

Enchant permanent When this Aura enters, draw a card. As long as enchanted permanent is a creature, it gets +1/+0 and has haste. As long as enchanted permanent is an Equipment, it has "Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and has haste."
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
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
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
Legal
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