A-Elven Bow

The Arena rebalance is a study in how much a single mana can matter to a one-drop's floor. The paper Equipment already builds its own carrier on arrival: pay the surcharge and you get a 1/1 Elf Warrior wearing the bow the moment the artifact resolves, so the +1/+2 and reach never wait on a separate creature. This version simply shaves the mana cost, dropping the artifact to a single green so the self-sufficient package costs less to assemble. The design instinct behind both printings is the same one that makes living-weapon Equipment work: a weapon that lands with no legal target is a dead card, and stapling a body to the enters trigger removes the worst-case draw where you have the sword and nothing to hold it. The token is the handle, not the beneficiary; the bow is what attaches, moving to something larger later at the equip if you want to relocate the buff. Reach is the quiet half of the payoff, since a +1/+2 pump plus reach turns whatever holds the bow into a credible answer to fliers rather than a pure aggression tool. Trimming the extra mana matters most on the curve: the cheaper the whole build-a-carrier engine gets, the more it competes with plain one-drop creatures rather than sitting a full turn behind them.