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A Scarecrow that pays one mana to wear every color at once is a fixer disguised as a beater. The activation does nothing for its own combat math; what it powers is the deck around it. Color-matters payoffs (cards that reward you for controlling multicolored permanents, that count colors among your creatures, that punish or favor a given color) all read this 3/2 as a five-color permanent the moment you spend the mana. A repeatable source of "all colors" attached to a body is rarer than it sounds: most ways to turn a creature every color come stapled to a one-shot spell or a fragile aura. Here the effect lives on the creature itself, payable again and again so long as you have mana to spend, at instant speed in response to whatever check is reading colors. That timing window is the whole reason to run it: you hold up the mana and flip it on only when a color check actually fires, so the creature never commits to being multicolored when nothing is asking. The colorless artifact shell is the quiet joke of the design: a permanent with no color identity that can become the most colorful thing on the board on demand. Built for a color-counting engine, ignored entirely by decks that do not care what color their attackers are.