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Cryptic Gateway
Oracle Text
Tap two untapped creatures you control: You may put a creature card from your hand that shares a creature type with each creature tapped this way onto the battlefield.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Cryptic Gateway is a quintessential tribal value engine, best suited to midrange and combo-leaning creature decks that can keep bodies on board and turn them into sudden board presence. At five mana, it asks for setup, but once online it effectively cheats the biggest creature in your hand onto the battlefield every turn, or even multiple times in a turn if you have enough untapped creatures. The key is matching creature types: any two creatures you tap can “open the gate” for a creature card sharing a type with both, so decks with dense tribal cores—Elves, Zombies, Slivers, or Allies—get the most out of it. It pairs especially well with token makers, tap-for-value creatures, and cards that untap your board, letting a control shell convert spare creatures into free threats. In Dominaria Remastered’s nostalgic context, it feels like an old magical conduit: patient, intricate, and devastating when your army becomes the key to its own reinforcements.
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Character Background
Cryptic Gateway is a quintessential tribal value engine, best suited to midrange and combo-leaning creature decks that can keep bodies on board and turn them into sudden board presence. At five mana, it asks for setup, but once online it effectively cheats the biggest creature in your hand onto the battlefield every turn, or even multiple times in a turn if you have enough untapped creatures. The key is matching creature types: any two creatures you tap can “open the gate” for a creature card sharing a type with both, so decks with dense tribal cores—Elves, Zombies, Slivers, or Allies—get the most out of it. It pairs especially well with token makers, tap-for-value creatures, and cards that untap your board, letting a control shell convert spare creatures into free threats. In Dominaria Remastered’s nostalgic context, it feels like an old magical conduit: patient, intricate, and devastating when your army becomes the key to its own reinforcements.
Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-10-08 00:40:42 UTC