Cloudsteel Kirin

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Cloudsteel Kirin: Artifact Creature - Equipment Kirin, Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty. MTG card printings, market prices, rulings, and format legality on Mana Grove.

Mana cost
{2}{W}
Mana value
3
Type
Artifact Creature - Equipment Kirin
Colour identity
White (W)
Power / toughness
3/2
Rarity
Rare
Set
Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (NEO)
Released
2022-02-18
Collector number
8
Artist
Jonathan Kuo
Commander rank
5,194 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
Keywords
Flying, Reconfigure

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About Cloudsteel Kirin

Cloudsteel Kirin is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare white artifact creature from Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (NEO), an expansion set released in February 2022. It is collector number 8 in that set, with art by Jonathan Kuo. It costs {2}{W} (two generic and one white mana) to cast, for a mana value of 3. It is a 3/2 creature. Its colour identity is white. It is legal in Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 3 sets. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $0.36 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-12).

Card text

Flying

Equipped creature has flying and "You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game."

Reconfigure {5} ({5}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)

Market price

Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $0.36 (as of 2026-11-12).

The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.

Format legality

Legality of Cloudsteel Kirin by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.

PioneerLegal
ModernLegal
LegacyLegal
VintageLegal
CommanderLegal
Duel CommanderLegal
OathbreakerLegal
BrawlLegal
HistoricLegal
TimelessLegal
GladiatorLegal
Penny DreadfulLegal

Other printings of Cloudsteel Kirin

Cloudsteel Kirin has been printed in 3 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.

PrintingRarityYear
Magic Online Promos (PRM) #97875Rare2022
Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (NEO) #364Rare2022
Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty (NEO) #435Rare2022
Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Promos (PNEO) #8pRare2022
Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty Promos (PNEO) #8sRare2022

Official rulings

The 8 most recent official rulings for Cloudsteel Kirin, newest first.

  • Although it causes an Equipment to become attached to a creature, reconfigure is not an “equip ability” for the purpose of cards like Fighter Class and Leonin Shikari.
  • An Equipment creature can never become attached to itself. If an effect tries to do this, nothing happens.
  • An Equipment creature with reconfigure can be attached to creatures by effects other than its reconfigure ability, such as the activated ability of Brass Squire.
  • An Equipment doesn't become tapped when the permanent it's attached to becomes tapped. For example, if you attack with a creature that is equipped with Acquisition Octopus, then use reconfigure to unattach Acquisition Octopus after combat, the Octopus will be untapped and could be used to block during your opponent's turn.
  • As soon as an Equipment creature with reconfigure stops being a creature, any Equipment and Auras with enchant creature abilities become unattached. Auras that can enchant an Equipment that isn't a creature remain attached to it.
  • Attaching an Equipment with reconfigure to a creature causes that Equipment to stop being a creature until it becomes unattached. It also loses any creature subtypes it had.
  • If a permanent with reconfigure is somehow still a creature after it becomes attached (perhaps due to an effect like that of March of the Machines), it immediately becomes unattached from the equipped creature.
  • If an Equipment with reconfigure somehow loses its abilities while it is attached, the effect causing it to not be a creature continues to apply until it becomes unattached.

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