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Silver Shroud Costume

Artifact — Equipment2 generic mana

The flash clause is the entire trick here, and it changes what this Equipment is for. Most evasion Equipment sits on the battlefield as a known quantity, telegraphing the attack a turn early and inviting a removal spell in response. This one arrives at instant speed, snaps onto a creature, and hands it shroud through end of turn, so the window where an opponent could kill the equipped attacker or fog the swing shrinks dramatically. The shroud is temporary and self-protecting rather than a permanent liability: it shields the creature only for the turn you sprang the trick, then falls away, which sidesteps the usual drawback of shroud (that it also locks your own auras and combat tricks off the creature). Read the two halves together and the piece stops being a mana sink and becomes an ambush: hold up two mana, wait until the creature can connect through a tapped-out opponent's answers, then flash it in for the full clock the creature is worth, unblockable and untouchable for the swing. The "can't be blocked" clause makes damage certain, but the shroud is what protects the attacker from being killed mid-combat, so the two evasive properties cover different threats: one beats blockers, the other beats instant-speed interaction. The permanent unblockable line is what justifies the ongoing equip cost, but the design's real center of gravity is that first turn, where flash, forced attachment, and shroud stack into a single protected alpha strike. It is evasion built as a surprise rather than a fixture.

Silver Shroud Costume (pip)
PIP · #142uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $9.91
Foil: $42.07
Oracle Text

Rules text

Flash When this Equipment enters, attach it to target creature you control. That creature gains shroud until end of turn. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equipped creature can't be blocked. Equip 3 generic mana
Legalities

Format Status

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