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Chromatic Armor
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LP
MP
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rare · Enchantment — Aura

Chromatic Armor

rare · Enchantment — Aura · Ice Age
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Oracle Text

Enchant creature
As this Aura enters, choose a color.
This Aura enters with a sleight counter on it.
Prevent all damage that would be dealt to enchanted creature by sources of the last chosen color.
{X}: Put a sleight counter on this Aura and choose a color. X is the number of sleight counters on this Aura.

Card Details

-/-Power / Toughness
{1}{W}{U}Mana Cost
1Prints

Character Background

Chromatic Armor is a classic Ice Age defensive Aura that feels like a prism of shifting ward-magic, wrapping one creature in a changing shell of color-bending protection. In play, it best supports a control or tempo plan: you buy time against a key attacker or keep a vital threat alive while you stabilize the board, and the scaling sleight counters let it adapt as the game develops. Its strongest use is against color-reliant removal or combat damage, especially in metas where one hue dominates. Because the prevention only works against the last chosen color, smart timing matters: you can reassign the color in response to a threat, or stack it on an evasive creature that expects to survive repeated trades. Deckbuilding-wise, it pairs well with blue-white decks that want to protect a singular win condition, such as a flyer or unblockable threat, and with cards that reward long games or repeated counter manipulation.

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Character Background

Chromatic Armor is a classic Ice Age defensive Aura that feels like a prism of shifting ward-magic, wrapping one creature in a changing shell of color-bending protection. In play, it best supports a control or tempo plan: you buy time against a key attacker or keep a vital threat alive while you stabilize the board, and the scaling sleight counters let it adapt as the game develops. Its strongest use is against color-reliant removal or combat damage, especially in metas where one hue dominates. Because the prevention only works against the last chosen color, smart timing matters: you can reassign the color in response to a threat, or stack it on an evasive creature that expects to survive repeated trades. Deckbuilding-wise, it pairs well with blue-white decks that want to protect a singular win condition, such as a flyer or unblockable threat, and with cards that reward long games or repeated counter manipulation.

Generated using gpt-5.4-mini · Updated at 2026-08-11 01:40:43 UTC

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