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Haunted Plate Mail
Card Information
Type: Artifact — Equipment
Mana Cost: 4
CMC: 4
Part of the Reserved List: No
Set: Magic 2015 (M15)
Rarity: Rare
Collector Number: 218
Oracle Text
Equipped creature gets +4/+4. {0}: Until end of turn, this permanent becomes a 4/4 Spirit artifact creature that's no longer an Equipment. Activate only if you control no creatures. Equip {4} ({4}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
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Card Rulings
- July 18, 2014
You can activate the equip ability of Haunted Plate Mail while it isn't an Equipment, but the ability will have no effect. Haunted Plate Mail won't become attached to any creature.
Source: wotc - July 18, 2014
Although you must control no creatures to activate the "animation" ability, having a creature somehow come under your control in response to that ability won't stop it from resolving.
Source: wotc - July 18, 2014
It's possible to activate the first activated ability of Haunted Plate Mail in response to activating the first ability of another Haunted Plate Mail and have them both become creatures until end of turn.
Source: wotc
Price History
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