Cloudsteel Kirin card art

Cloudsteel Kirin

Artifact Creature — Equipment Kirin MV 3

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

What it does

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.)

Combos with Cloudsteel Kirin

The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

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Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

14 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2022-02-18

    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.

  • 2022-02-18

    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.

  • 2022-02-18

    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.

  • 2022-02-18

    Reconfigure represents two activated abilities. Reconfigure [cost] means “[Cost]: Attach this permanent to another target creature you control. Activate only as a sorcery,” and “[Cost]: Unattach this permanent. Activate only if this permanent is attached to a creature and only as a sorcery.”

  • 2022-02-18

    An Equipment creature can never become attached to itself. If an effect tries to do this, nothing happens.

  • 2022-02-18

    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.

  • 2022-02-18

    If you have 0 or less life while Cloudsteel Kirin is equipped to a creature, activating reconfigure to attach Cloudsteel Kirin to another creature you control doesn't cause you to lose the game. You would lose the game if Cloudsteel Kirin becomes unattached or becomes attached to a creature you don't control.

  • 2022-02-18

    If you control a creature equipped with Cloudsteel Kirin in a Two-Headed Giant game, your team can't lose the game and the opposing team can't win the game.

  • 2022-02-18

    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.

  • 2022-02-18

    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.

  • 2022-02-18

    No game effect can cause you to lose the game or cause any opponent to win the game while you control a creature equipped with Cloudsteel Kirin. It doesn't matter whether you have 0 or less life, you're forced to draw a card while your library is empty, you have ten or more poison counters, you're at the end of your Nine Lives, your opponent is a Triskaidekaphile, or so on. You keep playing.

  • 2022-02-18

    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.

  • 2022-02-18

    Similarly, if an Equipment is tapped, its reconfigure abilities may still be activated and it may still become attached to creatures. Becoming attached doesn't untap it. In most cases, an attached Equipment being tapped won't affect gameplay, but it will be relevant if it becomes unattached again before it untaps.

  • 2022-02-18

    Other circumstances can still cause you to lose the game. For example, you will lose a game if you concede or if you're penalized with a Game Loss or a Match Loss during a sanctioned tournament due to a tournament rules infraction.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Cloudsteel Kirin, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 2
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games, which is not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Isshin, Two Heavens as One 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mardu 1 deck

Cloudsteel Kirin price history

The Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty #8 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly.

Non-foil today$0.37▼ $0.02 (5.1%)
Low $0.36 · High $0.42Tracked since Sep 28, 2026
Every recorded price change
DateNon-foilFoil
Oct 27, 2026$0.37$0.35
Oct 19, 2026$0.37$0.35
Oct 18, 2026$0.38$0.35
Oct 16, 2026$0.37$0.35
Oct 14, 2026$0.36$0.35
Oct 10, 2026$0.37$0.35
Oct 8, 2026$0.36$0.35
Oct 7, 2026$0.39$0.35
Oct 5, 2026$0.40$0.35
Oct 4, 2026$0.42$0.36
Oct 3, 2026$0.40$0.36
Oct 1, 2026$0.41$0.36
Sep 29, 2026$0.41$0.37
Sep 28, 2026$0.39$0.37

A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.

Every version of Cloudsteel Kirin

5 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly. A printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Cloudsteel Kirin. It runs a name search across every version, which covers the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only. No individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.