Through this, equipment became a way to invest in buffs for your creatures without the fear of losing two cards to a single removal spell, like you would by losing a low-cost aura-enchanted creature
A targeted effect, like target player sacrifices all creatures they control, wont work on a player that has protection from everything
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Banned in Modern to this day, its still considered one of the best Equipment cards of all time
You need to protect your cards if you want to keep them long term
Put simply, its a value engine that also can close out a game, and a cheap one at that - sitting at less than $2, this is at an all-time low, down from a historic high of just over $16 about two years ago, no doubt thanks to a slew of reprints