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Biorganic Carapace

Artifact — Equipment2 generic manaWhite manaBlue mana

Equipment that draws cards on connection is old hat; what this one does is make the payoff scale with a stat the game rarely rewards you for tracking directly. The trigger counts modified creatures, and the reminder text spells out the currency: Equipment, Auras you control, and counters all qualify. So the card is not really asking "did a creature hit," it is asking "how wide is your board of enhanced things," and then paying you that many cards off a single connection. The distinction matters: only the equipped creature carries the combat-damage trigger, so this is not a wide-attack engine that stacks draws per attacker. It is one bomb of a hit whose yield is inflated by everything else you have gone tall on: every creature carrying a counter, an Aura, or an Equipment counts toward that one draw, whether or not those creatures are attacking. The self-attaching enters clause matters more than it looks, too: the card equips for free on arrival, so the four mana buys both the +2/+2 (which makes the equipped creature count as one, since it has Equipment attached) and an immediate combat threat without the usual second-turn equip tax. The friction is that it wants a specific kind of board to be worth its mana, one already invested in auras and counters, and it does nothing to build that board itself. It rewards a shell that was already going tall-and-wide, then converts the overflow into cards.

Biorganic Carapace (spm)
SPM · #124rare
Pricing
Normal: $0.28
Foil: $0.33
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this Equipment enters, attach it to target creature you control. Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has "Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, draw a card for each modified creature you control." (Equipment, Auras you control, and counters are modifications.) Equip 2 generic mana
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
Legal
Pioneer
Legal
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
Legal
Historic
Legal
Alchemy
Legal
Timeless
Legal
Standard Brawl
Legal
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
Legal
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
Legal
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
Legal
TLR
N/A
Printings elsewhere

Other printings

2 sets
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