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Nim Deathmantle

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Colorless. Artifact — Equipment

two generic mana

309 · 2X2 · R · ENWhat the codes mean

Nim Deathmantle

Double Masters 2022 #309 · Illustrated by Karl Kopinski

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~$4.90

Non-foil · Scars of Mirrodin #188

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~$15.28

Etched foil · Double Masters 2022 #561

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Oracle text

Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has intimidate, and is a black Zombie. (A creature with intimidate can't be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)

Whenever a nontoken creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, you may pay four generic mana. If you do, return that card to the battlefield and attach this Equipment to it.

Equip four generic mana

All 3 printings of Nim Deathmantle

PrintingRarityNon-foilFoilEtched foilCardmarket (EUR)My collection
Double Masters 2022 #561
Double Masters 2022
2x2 #561· 2022rare
rareNo non-foil printingNo foil printing$15.28—
Scars of Mirrodin #188
Scars of Mirrodin
som #188· 2010rare· Cardmarket €2.35 · €5.67 foil
rare$4.90$12.41No etched foil printing€2.35€5.67 foil

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Card details

First printed
2010
Printings
3
Mana value
2
EDHREC rank
#3,549 on EDHREC (Commander popularity)
Keywords
Equip
Artist
Karl Kopinski

What the codes mean

The small print at the bottom of the Double Masters 2022 card (#309).

309 · 2X2 · R · EN

  • 309Collector number: this card's place in the set list. Main-set cards print it over the set's card count.
  • 2X2Set code for Double Masters 2022
  • RRare
  • ENPrinted in English

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Rulings (8)

  1. 2011-01-01

    Nim Deathmantle's color-changing and type-changing effects override the equipped creature's previous colors and creature types. After Nim Deathmantle becomes equipped to a creature, that creature will be a black Zombie, not any other colors or creature types.

  2. 2011-01-01

    Once Nim Deathmantle returns a card from your graveyard to the battlefield, it will remain on the battlefield indefinitely, even if Nim Deathmantle becomes unattached from it.

  3. 2011-01-01

    Once Nim Deathmantle becomes unattached from a creature, its color-changing and type-changing effects stop affecting that creature. The creature will no longer be black and will no longer be a Zombie (unless its printed characteristics or some other effects still cause it to be black and/or a Zombie, of course). This is true even if Nim Deathmantle returned that creature to the battlefield from the graveyard.

  4. 2011-01-01

    If the nontoken creature that caused Nim Deathmantle's second ability to trigger is somehow removed from your graveyard before that ability resolves, you may still pay four generic mana as it resolves. Even if you do, however, no card will be returned to the battlefield.

  5. 2011-01-01

    Nim Deathmantle's second ability may return a card it can't equip to the battlefield. For example, if a nontoken artifact that's become a creature is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, Nim Deathmantle's second ability triggers. If you pay four generic mana as it resolves, you'll return that card to the battlefield. However, Nim Deathmantle can't equip it, so Nim Deathmantle remains attached to whatever it was already equipping (or, if it was unattached, it remains so). The same is true if a nontoken creature with protection from artifacts is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, for example.

  6. 2011-01-01

    Nim Deathmantle causes the equipped creature to be a black Zombie even if it didn't return that creature to the battlefield from the graveyard.

  7. 2011-01-01

    You choose whether to pay four generic mana as Nim Deathmantle's second ability resolves. Although players may respond to this ability, once it begins to resolve and you decide whether to pay, it's too late for players to respond.

  8. 2011-01-01

    If multiple nontoken creatures are put into your graveyard from the battlefield at the same time, Nim Deathmantle's second ability triggers that many times. You put the triggered abilities on the stack in any order, so you'll determine in which order they resolve. If you pay four generic mana more than once, each card you paid four generic mana for will end up on the battlefield under your control, and Nim Deathmantle will end up attached to the last card that returned to the battlefield this way that it could equip.

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