Bitterthorn, Nissa's Animus

Living weapon put a floor under Equipment: rather than sitting inert until a creature showed up to carry it, the artifact brings its own wielder to the battlefield, a disposable 0/0 Germ that arrives already suited up. What this design does with that pattern is bolt a fetch-land trigger onto the attack step, turning the equipped body into a repeatable ramp engine that thins the deck of a basic every time it swings. The +1/+1 is almost incidental; the point is that each attack, whether on the fragile Germ or on whatever creature you re-equip it to, advances your mana development while advancing the board. That gives the card two modes. Left on its default Germ, it is a cheap clock that ramps and can be reset by any removal that clears the token, though the Equipment itself stays on the battlefield when the Germ dies, waiting to be re-attached for . Moved onto a real threat, it becomes a durable manabase engine that survives creature removal outright and keeps fetching so long as the wearer keeps attacking. The Nissa framing is the tell for what the card is doing under colorless clothing: a green ramp payoff dressed as an artifact so any deck can run it. Living weapon has always been the fail-safe against Equipment's classic dead-card-with-no-legs problem; here it doubles as the delivery mechanism for an effect that is really about lands.