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Secret Plans

EnchantmentGreen manaBlue mana

Face-down permanents have always carried a hidden tax: the 2/2 body is a clock you pay to plant, and the flip is a tempo bet you make only when the upside clears the mana. This enchantment attacks that cost from both ends. The +0/+1 keeps your face-down attackers and blockers alive through the 2-damage sweepers and combat math a flat 2/2 loses to, and the card draw turns every unmorph from a one-shot reveal into a replacement that refills your hand. The effect is that flipping stops being a luxury and becomes profit: you were going to pay the cost anyway, and now each flip cantrips. That reframes the whole face-down toolbox from a tempo gamble into an attrition engine, which is exactly the axis these decks otherwise struggle to win on. It is a payoff card, useless without a critical mass of face-down permanents to trigger it, and it wants every megamorph and manifest effect you can find to maximize the draws. The narrow build requirement is the price; the reward is that a strategy normally stuck in midrange tempo gets a way to grind. Worth noting the second clause says "permanent," not "creature," so anything that turns face up, including the rarer noncreature manifests, feeds the same engine.

Secret Plans (c19)
C19 · #201uncommon
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Normal: $0.23
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Oracle Text

Rules text

Face-down creatures you control get +0/+1. Whenever a permanent you control is turned face up, draw a card.
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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