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Cryptic Coat

~$0.26 low · ~$1.43 high

Blue. Artifact — Equipment

two generic manaone blue mana

Cryptic Coat

Murders at Karlov Manor #50 · Illustrated by Julia Metzger

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Non-foil · Murders at Karlov Manor #50

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Promo foil · Murders at Karlov Manor Promos #50s

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Oracle text

When this Equipment enters, cloak the top card of your library, then attach this Equipment to it. (To cloak a card, put it onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature with ward two generic mana. Turn it face up any time for its mana cost if it's a creature card.)

Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and can't be blocked.

one generic manaone blue mana: Return this Equipment to its owner's hand.

All 4 printings of Cryptic Coat

PrintingRarityNon-foilFoilCardmarket (EUR)My collection
Murders at Karlov Manor #394
Murders at Karlov Manor
mkm #394· 2024Extended Artrare· Cardmarket €0.49 · €1.35 foil
rare$0.29$0.53€0.49€1.35 foil
Murders at Karlov Manor Promos #50p
Murders at Karlov Manor Promos
pmkm #50p· 2024Promorare· Cardmarket €0.52 · €0.97 foil
rare$0.63$0.40€0.52€0.97 foil
Murders at Karlov Manor Promos #50s
Murders at Karlov Manor Promos
pmkm #50s· 2024Promorare· Cardmarket €0.02 foil
rareNo non-foil printing$1.43€0.02 foil

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Card details

First printed
2024
Printings
4
Mana value
3
EDHREC rank
#11,725 on EDHREC (Commander popularity)
Keywords
Cloak
Artist
Julia Metzger

Rulings (16)

  1. 2024-02-02

    At any time, you can look at a face-down spell or permanent you control. You can't look at face-down permanents or spells you don't control unless an effect instructs or allows you to do so.

  2. 2024-02-02

    You must ensure that your face-down spells and permanents can be easily differentiated from each other. You're not allowed to mix up the cards that represent them on the battlefield to confuse other players. The order in which they entered the battlefield should remain clear, as well as what ability caused them to be face down. (This includes disguise, cloak, and in games involving older cards, morph and manifest, as well as a few other effects that turn cards face down.) Common methods for doing this include using markers or dice, or simply placing them in order on the battlefield.

  3. 2024-02-02

    If a face-down spell leaves the stack and goes to any zone other than the battlefield (if it was countered, for example), you must reveal it. Similarly, if a face-down permanent leaves the battlefield, you must reveal it. You must also reveal all face-down spells and permanents you control if you leave the game or the game ends.

  4. 2024-02-02

    Any time you have priority, you can turn a cloaked permanent you control face-up by revealing that it's a creature card (ignoring any copy effects or type-changing effects that might be applying to it) and paying its mana cost. This is a special action. It doesn't use the stack and can't be responded to.

  5. 2024-02-02

    Because face-down creatures don't have a name, they can't have the same name as any other creature, even another face-down creature.

  6. 2024-02-02

    If a cloaked creature would have disguise (or morph) if it were face up, you may also turn it face up by paying its disguise (or morph) cost.

  7. 2024-02-02

    If something tries to turn a face-down instant or sorcery card on the battlefield face up, reveal that card to show all players it's an instant or sorcery card. The permanent remains on the battlefield face down. Abilities that trigger when a permanent turns face up won't trigger, because even though you revealed the card, it never turned face up.

  8. 2024-02-02

    If a face-down creature loses its abilities, it can't be turned face up with a disguise ability because it will no longer have a disguise ability (or a disguise cost) once face up.

  9. 2024-02-02

    Turning a permanent face up or face down doesn't change whether that permanent is tapped or untapped.

  10. 2024-02-02

    A permanent that turns face up or face down changes characteristics but is otherwise the same permanent. Spells and abilities that were targeting that permanent and Auras and Equipment that were attached to that permanent aren't affected unless the new characteristics of the object change the legality of those targets or attachments.

  11. 2024-02-02

    You'll still cloak the top card of your library even if Cryptic Coat isn't on the battlefield as its first ability resolves.

  12. 2024-02-02

    Because the permanent is on the battlefield both before and after it's turned face up, turning a permanent face up doesn't cause any enters-the-battlefield abilities to trigger.

  13. 2024-02-02

    Unlike a face-down creature that was cast using a disguise or morph ability, a cloaked creature may still be turned face up after it loses its abilities if it's a creature card.

  14. 2024-02-02

    Cryptic Coat has no equip ability. Without assistance from other cards, there's no way to attach it to a creature other than with its first triggered ability. How cryptic!

  15. 2024-02-02

    If a double-faced card is cloaked, it will be put onto the battlefield face down. While face down, it can't transform. If the front face of the card is a creature card, you can turn it face up by paying its mana cost. If you do, its front face will be up.

  16. 2024-02-02

    To cloak a card, put it onto the battlefield face down. It becomes a 2/2 face-down creature card with ward two generic mana and no name, mana cost, or creature types. It's colorless and has a mana value of 0. Other effects that apply to the permanent can still grant it any characteristics it doesn't have or change the characteristics it does have.

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