The History of Cloak in MTG Cloak debuted in 2024 with Murders at Karlov Manor
If a cost includes causing you to gain life (like the alternative cost of an opponent's Invigorate does), that cost can't be paid
(Warning: this list is exhaustive in the hopes that it will inspire one of you to do something grand with Scales and but may also just result in you losing your FNM games while you durdle around.): The Green Devotion Players Working with the pre-existing Green Devotion shell may mean messing with a good thing unnecessarily but its certainly worth a look to see whether Hardened Scales can rate a slot in a deck thats already proven itself Tier 1, perhaps with some previously ignored cousins: Genesis Hydra : I like getting a slightly better rate on this guy when he was already playable
In the context of Commander, Yuna acts as a pseudo version of The OzolithThe Ozolith, but rather than the counters of the dead creature retaining their classification, Yuna effectively converts them into +1/+1 counters for another creature
Stirring Bard Banned from Pauper, Stirring Bard is a red creature with defender that provides you with the initiative, a game-changing ability for 1v1 formats, which was the only reason it was banned