Armed

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Posted on Oct. 9, 2016, 7:35 p.m. by _person_

Ok so I thought of a mechanic that represents skill with weapons. It could probably be worded a hundred times better, but anyway:

Armed(Whenever an equipment becomes attached to this creature, put a token onto the battlefield that is a copy of that equipment attached to this creature. Whenever one of those equipment becomes unattached to this creature, sacrifice the other.)

It seems unnecessarily complicated, but I don't know of any other way to double the effects of equipment.

Eiti3 says... #2

Double Argentum Armor? Double Quietus Spike? Sure, that's brilliant.

Why not Armed # (This creature gets +#/+# if it only has one equipment attached to it. If another equipment is attached, sacrifice one.)

October 9, 2016 8:11 p.m.

How about this?

It is a bit undercosted (I would lower the stats and make it cost at least ) and outright broken as a commander, just thought I'd share my idea. Also the wording is off because I just made it, sorry for that.

October 9, 2016 8:13 p.m.

_person_ says... #4

Yeah it might be a bit overpowered, but we can worry about that after we word it correctly...

October 9, 2016 8:25 p.m.

Eiti3 says... #5

You want to worry about mechanics after finding proper vocabulary?

Doubling any equipment is crazzzzzy good. Wizards would never go for making it as common as a named mechanic. What they might come close to is what I suggested where they give a creature a +X/+X based on the creature themself when an equipment is attached, essentially and potentially doubling equipment stats.

October 9, 2016 8:30 p.m.

Here you go!

Eiti3 I had a dumb idea, so I made a card.

October 9, 2016 8:49 p.m.

Onion_duck says... #7

Ya doubling equipment is crazy overpowered. What if instead Armed could allow the creature to be equipped with any equipment free of cost or at a reduced cost. Shows skill with weapons to be able to pick up any weapon and use it.

October 9, 2016 8:49 p.m.

_person_ says... #8

That's actually a good idea. Maybe:

Armed(cost)(Cost:equip target equipment you control to this creature) It's completely different from my concept, but it still fits the flavor. I'll think about it.

October 9, 2016 9:03 p.m.

kipahlord13 says... #9

Yes double Umezawa's Jitte is perfectly fine, I promise.

October 10, 2016 8:39 a.m.

_person_ says... #10

Umezawa's Jitte is legendary, so...

October 10, 2016 11:40 a.m.

_person_ says... #11

What about armed(number) and it only worked on stuff with cmc (number) or less?

October 22, 2016 3:50 p.m.

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