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Bramble Armor

Artifact — Equipment1 generic manaGreen mana

The self-attaching clause turns this into a green stat boost dressed up as an Equipment. It enters and snaps onto a creature you already control for free, so the two mana buys an immediate +2/+1 with no equip tax at all. That front-loaded attachment is exactly why the equip cost sits at a punishing four: the card would be trivially mobile otherwise, hopping between threats every turn. What the Equipment framing buys instead is durability. The boost outlives its first host, surviving a blocker trade or a sacrifice to be re-equipped onto the next body in a way a one-shot pump spell like Titanic Growth never could. But that permanence comes at sorcery speed only. Without flash, you cannot ambush a combat step by dropping it mid-attack or holding it up on defense; it commits on your main phase like any other permanent, and the value it banks is future value, not surprise value. So the card lands in an odd spot between aura and true Equipment: cheaper to deploy than most gear because it attaches itself, but far costlier to move, trading the mobility that usually justifies the card type for a buff that refuses to die with its carrier. You are paying for staying power, not flexibility, and the four-mana relocation cost is the lever that keeps the trade honest.

Bramble Armor (dbl)
DBL · #171common
Pricing
Normal: $0.09
Foil: $0.23
Oracle Text

Rules text

When this Equipment enters, attach it to target creature you control. Equipped creature gets +2/+1. Equip 4 generic mana (4 generic mana: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Legalities

Format Status

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

Other printings

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