Haunted Cloak
Artifact — Equipment
Equipped creature has vigilance, trample, and haste.
Equip 
(: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- C
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Shadows over Innistrad
- Price
- $0.40
- EDHREC rank
- #2085
Haunted Cloak hands the equipped creature vigilance, trample, and haste for three mana to cast and three to equip — all three keywords at once is a rate few equipment match. Commanders like Odric, Lunarch Marshal turn that keyword pile into a board-wide buff, making this a functional engine piece rather than a vanilla stat stick.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Odric, Lunarch Marshal
Haunted Cloak's three keywords feed directly into Odric, Lunarch Marshal's combat trigger, spreading vigilance, trample, and haste to every creature you control at the start of combat — one equipment doing the work of three anthem effects.
Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer
Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer wants to attack and trigger repeatedly, and Haunted Cloak's haste and vigilance let it swing without summoning sickness and untap ready to do it again next turn.
Kosei, Penitent Warlord
Kosei, Penitent Warlord needs trample and haste to connect damage reliably and immediately, and Haunted Cloak delivers both on a single equipment with no color requirement.
Gilgamesh, Master-at-Arms
Gilgamesh, Master-at-Arms cares about equipped creatures attacking, and Haunted Cloak's haste means a freshly played or re-equipped creature can swing the same turn — no waiting, no telegraphing.
Bruenor Battlehammer
Bruenor Battlehammer reduces equip costs, which brings Haunted Cloak's three-mana equip into budget range and makes the full keyword package trivially cheap to redeploy mid-combat.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Haunted Cloak is a Commander staple and essentially nothing else. The six total mana to equip the first time is too slow for Modern or Pioneer, where equipment decks demand one- or two-mana equip costs to stay competitive. In Pauper it's legal but outclassed by commons that provide individual keywords more efficiently. Commander is the format where paying three to equip is acceptable, the keyword redundancy has real value, and colorless equipment slots into any deck without restriction.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.40 bulk tier
At $0.40, Haunted Cloak sits firmly in bulk territory — easy to pick up in trade binders or throw into any order as filler. Bulk equipment with broad Commander applicability tends to hold this floor without much movement either direction.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Odric, Lunarch Marshal
- Anti-Venom, Horrifying Healer
- Kosei, Penitent Warlord
- Gilgamesh, Master-at-Arms
- Bruenor Battlehammer
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.