Veiled Ascension

Cloak is manifest's protective cousin: both drop a card face down as a 2/2 you can turn face up by paying its mana cost, but cloaked creatures come wearing ward , so the anonymous body is harder to pick off before you decide what it becomes. The chronic weakness of any face-down strategy is the same one that plagues token swarms: a board of vanilla 2/2s does not close games, and the ground stalls the instant the opponent matches your count. This enchantment attacks that ceiling by granting evasion at the point of entry, and it does so through a counter rather than a static keyword. That distinction is the entire design. A static "face-down creatures have flying" evaporates the moment you flip the card face up; a flying counter is a permanent object that rides along through the transformation. So a 2/2 that entered as camouflage keeps its wings after it reveals whatever threat was underneath, converting a horizontal board that trades into an aerial one that races. The upkeep cloak trigger then feeds the same engine, adding a face-down attacker each turn that arrives pre-equipped with flight, so the payoff compounds instead of asking you to re-establish it. It is a support piece built to solve the specific failure mode of a mechanic prone to grinding to a halt: it gives the pile of anonymous bodies a clock and a way over the wall.