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Runed Stalactite

Artifact — Equipment1 generic mana

Tribal payoffs usually demand the type live on the creature itself: a lord that names Goblins, a rally trigger counting Allies, a "creatures you control of the chosen type" effect that simply ignores half your board. This Equipment inverts that dependency by selling membership to whatever it touches. For two mana to equip and a +1/+1 it barely cares about, any creature becomes Goblin, Elf, Merfolk, Wizard, and everything else at once, which solves the perennial headache of a synergy deck splashed across colors: how do you switch on the lord when your mana dork and your random flyer are off-type? Plug a Stalactite onto either and it counts. The +1/+1 reads almost as an apology, a token bump so the card isn't a pure enabler that does nothing to the board. The real work is taxonomic: it makes any creature a legal target for a type-restricted effect, trips type-matters triggers (yours and your opponent's), and launders a generically-typed token into whatever the rest of the deck wants it to be. That universality is uncommon enough that the card tends to sit in the toolbox of decks organized around a tribe rather than a guild, a glue piece for the kind of engine that would otherwise have to run its creature base pure to function.

Runed Stalactite (lrw)
LRW · #260common
Pricing
Normal: $0.16
Foil: $1.88
Oracle Text

Rules text

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and is every creature type. Equip 2 generic mana
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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