Angelic Armaments

The type-grafting clause is the genuinely odd line here, and it is also the reason this Equipment exists at all. Most Equipment of its era bought a stat boost and an evasion keyword and stopped there; this one rewrites the creature's color and creature type on top of that, turning whatever wears it into a white Angel in addition to everything it already was. That is a payoff hook in search of a payoff: anything that counts Angels or triggers off white permanents suddenly sees a body it would otherwise ignore. The numbers themselves are unremarkable for the slot (a +2/+2 with flying, attached for a four-mana equip cost, is squarely fair-rate and not a deal), so the retype line carries the weight; strip it and you have a generic flier-maker no one would build around. As a plain evasion enabler it works (turn a ground creature into a flier and swing), but the interesting use is in decks where "is an Angel" or "is white" functions as a switch rather than flavor text. Designs that retype a creature this way are rare precisely because they are narrow, and Angelic Armaments accepts that narrowness rather than disguising it: the body it grants is incidental, and the tribe and color it confers are the actual product.