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Brawler's Plate

Artifact — Equipment3 generic mana

The +2/+2 is the cheapest thing this Equipment does; the trample is what it was built to sell. A pure power-and-toughness buff runs into a structural wall in combat: a single chump blocker eats the whole attack no matter how large the equipped creature gets. Trample is the answer that converts a stat bonus into inevitable pressure, pushing every point over the blocker's toughness through as damage that lands on the player or planeswalker. That reframes the buff as a closer rather than a coin flip against a one-drop wall, best on a body that is already evasive or already large. The price structure tells the rest of the story: three to cast and four to equip is a deliberately heavy tax, the cost of a colorless, reusable buff that answers to no particular deck and can move to a new creature later. But moving it is not free and not automatic; if the wearer dies, the Plate stays on the battlefield and does nothing until you pay the equip cost again, at sorcery speed, to strap it onto a fresh body. That is the tension it resolves against a combat trick: the trick fires once, this keeps the +2/+2 and trample every turn, so long as you are willing to keep feeding it mana. Common-rarity, colorless, built to give a creature deck a recurring finisher rather than a flashy one, and the rate reflects exactly that modest ambition.

Brawler's Plate (ori)
ORI · #224uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.11
Foil: $0.80
Oracle Text

Rules text

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has trample. (It can deal excess combat damage to the player or planeswalker it's attacking.) 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
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
N/A
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
Legal
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
Legal
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