You, the owner of the cloaked card can look at the face down card at any time
Solving A Case Each Case has its own criteria to solve , usually relating to the first ability
Torpor Orb | Illustration by Svetlin Velinov Stax cards impede your opponents development through various means , such as forcing them to sacrifice permanents, taxing them, making cards enter tapped, and simply having the text players/opponents cannot do X. Many players believe the term comes from Smokestack, a key card of the original stax list, and to some extent that's true
Reveal those cards, put them into your hand, then shuffle
Commanders like Sheoldred, the Apocalypse can use the extra card draw that youll get through this card and Ring-bearer attacks, and youll also gain a bunch of life to offset the life loss
Or did it always have a key role to play one which twenty years of designers simply overlooked