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Secrets of Paradise

Conspiracy

The thinnest member of the secret-naming cycle, and a clean illustration of how little the hidden-agenda framework can return when the reveal does nothing to change the board. The conceit across these conspiracies is identical: you lock in a card name face down before anyone plays a land, then flip it up the moment it matters. Where its cyclemates convert that secret into milling, evasion, or a real combat swing, this one converts it into a color-fixing rider, granting every creature with the chosen name a mana-of-any-color tap ability. The payoff scales only with how many copies of that name hit the battlefield, which is why the card wants an environment where you can accumulate several of one creature rather than rely on a singleton. Even then the ceiling is low: turning a small stack of identical bodies into makeshift mana dorks is fixing, not a plan. And the secrecy, the whole reason the mechanic exists, buys almost nothing here, since an opponent gains little from knowing in advance which of your creatures will eventually tap for mana. Naming a token type does not help either; the choice has to be a printed card name, and most token creatures do not share a name with one. Read as design, this is the keyword's floor: a conspiracy whose mind-game wrapper delivers a marginal manabase smoothing effect, worth running only when the deck already wanted multiples of a single creature.

Secrets of Paradise (cns)
CNS · #10common
Pricing
Normal: $0.11
Foil: $0.39
Oracle Text

Rules text

Hidden agenda (Start the game with this conspiracy face down in the command zone and secretly choose a card name. You may turn this conspiracy face up any time and reveal that name.) Creatures you control with the chosen name have "Tap: Add one mana of any color."
Legalities

Format Status

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